A photo evaluation is a service you can order from Orthosnap, completely free, to get an estimate and a smile animation for a patient case, before expending time and effort on a full case workup.

It's useful when you want to offer your patient a better idea of what treatment might look like as far as cost, steps, and results before you commit to completing a full workup. Some patients might decide to move forward with treatment only if it fits their personal decision criteria: usually length, cost, and difficulty. Therefore, before investing everyone's time into doing a complete workup, you can simply collect some photos of the patient's teeth and submit as a photo evaluation to get an estimate and animation.

After you've presented the photo evaluation to your patient and answered all their questions, they'll offer you some indication if they accept, require modifications, or reject clear aligner therapy completely.

If the patient rejects, please cancel the case by going to the Orthosnap portal, clicking on the patient, and selecting the 'Actions' button in the upper right corner > 'Cancel case'

If the patient requires modifications, please schedule a clinical call to revise the case. Also found in the Orthosnap portal, click on the patient, and select 'Actions' > 'Schedule a clinical call'

If the patient accepts treatment, please complete the missing parts of your clear aligner workup: scans, photos, radiographs, and Rx, while your patient is in the chair. Then from the Orthosnap portal, patient page, there will be an 'Order Aligners' button in the Required Actions box.

The portal will walk you through adding any missing necessary information and files to complete the case submission.

Need help managing this case? Schedule a call with your clinical account manager to collaborate on this case.