December 21 is the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. It's the shortest day of the year in Helsinki with only 5 hours, 49 minutes of daylight. We care about good quality lighting to get us through these darkest days of winter!

December 21, 2022. Helsinki at 14:30pm facing south toward the midday sun. 

But what do we mean when we ask for good quality lighting to be used in healthcare? Scroll down to learn:

• What are the 3 types of lighting?
• Who defines lighting in healthcare facilities?
• How is Light Quality Defined?
• Other characteristics affect the light and image quality?
• Is it possible to improve my lighting in software?
  

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Improved communication improves patient satisfaction, but the patient must have a good experience! 

In this post, we will share feedback from dental camera users and from patients to help you create a comfortable experience:

• Choose the right equipment. 
• Introduce dental photography with an example. 
• Ask for consent. 
• Prepare the equipment.
• Size the equipment correctly.
• Monitor the patient's comfort. 
• Show and share the results.
• Help the patient to make good decisions.

Using a handsfree, non-interruptive camera means that comprehensive photos can be taken with every patient without adding time to the treatment.

Visual aids and multimedia are guaranteed ways to help your patients understand, be more satisfied and less anxious about their dental treatment.

Improved communication = understanding + treatment acceptance + satisfaction

Have you ever been mid-way through an explanation to a patient and realized they don’t truly understand? Is it then difficult to convince that patient to accept the treatment plan?

The documentation routines of daily dentistry should be simple, clear and flexible: the details of patient specific findings and  operations should be easily at hand any time. But is this the reality of an average dental practice of today?

Helsinki, November 2016 — EduCam dental video camera has finally solved the most common difficulties of using dental imaging devices like the intraoral camera. Dental professionals know that getting good images inside the patient’s mouth is not easy.

Having received requests from our community for putting together a set of video tutorials, our set-up series is live and free to watch.

In the sixth and final part of our video tutorials, we show you how to create a case file on Futudent software, and how to share it with your dental colleagues. A case may contain text, videos, images, or other additional files such as x-rays. Cases, together with the Futudent discussion threads, are a safe and efficient way to discuss professionally with your colleagues. Collaborating online with dental technicians, specialists and even insurance companies saves you time and allows you to focus on what you do best – treating patients.

Once you’ve recorded a video or taken snapshots, you may want to save the recordings or share them with the patient – we’ll show you how to do this is the fifth part of our video tutorial series. Our secure cloud environment is an efficient way to organize the recordings for future reviewing, and you can also link the videos to your patient’s existing digital files in your practice management software.