ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHYFORDENTISTS

Photographyfordentists was founded more than 10 years ago by Dr Ian Cline, Dental Surgeon. Ian has over 20 years experience of teaching clinical photography to all member of the dental team. In this time he has taught all over the UK & Ireland, as well as Internationally & Worldwide Online.

ABOUT THE FOUNDER

Dr Ian Cline | Clinician, Educator, National & International Speaker

Ian has presented numerous courses for the past 15 years to dentists both Nationally and Internationally (including recent trips to Lithuania, Latvia, Dubai, Russia, Ireland, Spain, Poland, Kuwait, Egypt). His experience is from teaching small hands-on masterclasses, to being a keynote speaker at international conferences to more than five hundred. He has spoken at both the British Dental Association National Conference and the Irish Dental Association Annual Conference. He is very much a wet fingered dentist, and is a partner in a Central London Private Practice. Here he carries out all manner of general and aesthetic dentistry. His first teaching was over 20 years ago on the subject of Clinical Dental Photography a subject he still enjoys teaches to this day. His main interests are in Minimally Invasive Aesthetic Restorative Dentistry, and Anterior and Posterior Direct Composite. He is a past President of the London Dental Study Club, and is a Guest Lecturer to the King’s College London MSc programmes in Fixed & Removal Prosthodontics. He has been a member of the International Jury Panel for the Global CeramX case contest for the past 4 years. He is an opinion leader and advisor to a number of dental companies and is the author of the Dentsply “how to guide” on simplifying posterior composite restorations. Ian is a pioneer in the field of online education and has given numerous webinars worldwide for many years, a number of these have been recorded and several are available at the Dentsplysirona Academy.

TEACHING 

Ian is one of the UK’s most experienced postgraduate educators to all members of the dental team, he has provided teaching and hands-on courses at numerous events renaming from small hands-on sessions to addressing audiences of a thousand.

Ian can speak to dental study groups and dental conferences on numerous topics including, but not limited to:

• Digital Dental Photography

• Minimally Invasive Aesthetic Dentistry

• Smile design principles

• Tooth whitening techniques

• Posterior Composite, including modern concepts in matrix systems and rubber dam technique

• Anterior Composites including the Dahl Technique

• Ceramic veneers