ABSTRACT
BASICS OF STANDARDIZED PHOTOGRAPHY Photographic documentation serves medicolegal functions and has many educational, research, clinical, and marketing applications. It provides a means to assess surgical success or failure and leads to better communication between the patient and physician. It is one of the most useful tools to the plastic surgeon, but it can also be one of the most fallible. If quality and proper standardizations are not maintained, medical photographs can become misleading and unable to provide accurate photographic documentation.
