Get the photos your clinician needs — first time, every time
Half of patient photo submissions are unusable. Wrong angle, poor lighting, blurry — and your team spends the next two days in a back-and-forth retake loop. Guided intake fixes this at the source, before the photos ever reach your clinician.
What does guided photo intake do?
Half of patient photo submissions are unusable. Wrong angle, poor lighting, blurry — and your team spends the next two days in a back-and-forth retake loop. Guided intake fixes this at the source, before the photos ever reach your clinician.
Why practices use it
The quality of a remote assessment is entirely determined by the quality of what the patient submits. Without guidance, patients guess — and clinicians waste clinical time requesting retakes, sending reminders, and reviewing images that can't inform a decision. Guided intake solves the problem at the source.
Dramatically fewer retakes
When patients are guided through the correct angles and lighting conditions, the proportion of usable first submissions rises sharply.
Faster clinical review
Clinicians receive consistent, comparable images rather than a mixed collection of selfies — making review quicker and more confident.
Better patient experience
Patients follow clear steps rather than being sent a confusing list of instructions — which means higher completion rates and less frustration on both sides.
Reusable across every workflow
The same intake system supports new assessments, active monitoring, triage submissions, and smile preview handoffs — one consistent patient experience throughout.
Less admin burden on reception
When patients self-guide through photo submission, reception isn't needed to explain the process over the phone or manage email threads.
Works at any hour
Patients complete submissions at their convenience — evenings, weekends, or whenever they have good lighting. No appointment needed to submit.
Where it fits in practice
Guided photo intake improves any workflow where the practice depends on patient-submitted images. The biggest gains come in practices running high volumes of remote assessments, monitoring programmes, or triage workflows — where the cost of bad photo submissions compounds across dozens of cases per week.
New assessment photo capture
Guide every new enquiry through the specific views your clinician needs before reviewing suitability — cutting the back-and-forth from days to minutes.
Active patient monitoring
Use the same familiar upload experience when patients need to send progress photos between visits — improving monitoring submission rates.
Triage evidence collection
Request specific photos when patients report problems — so clinicians can triage remotely with evidence rather than guessing from a text description.
Campaign to assessment handoff
Move patients from an AI smile preview or social campaign into a complete guided assessment in the same journey.
Multi-site standardisation
Ensure every patient submits the same quality and range of photos regardless of which location they approached first.
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How it connects
Guided photo intake is the foundation of every remote workflow — assessments, monitoring, triage, and AI smile preview all depend on consistent, clinically useful images. When intake is right, every downstream workflow is faster and more effective.
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