Setting up a medical portrait studio.

Consistency of photographic documentation is essential for facial plastic surgery, a visual surgical subspecialty. Photographs are often used to validate surgical outcomes but have many other uses including education, publication, and marketing. Utilization of a properly equipped medical portrait studio will dramatically increase the quality of photographic images. In this article, the authors discuss the steps necessary to set up and use an officebased portrait studio. Copyright 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.