Did you know you can add photos of any type into your studies?

Image Overlay

• Have them conveniently available for future analysis
• Photo to X-Ray image comparison
• Insertion into Metron report for client education
• For equine skeletal, we two additional options:
• Use them with an X-Ray image for overlay
• Perform Mark--Up to present measurements and angle 

How do you insert the photo?

Nearly all photos being taken these days are with simple digital cameras.  Metron makes it easy to import images from digital cameras.  

Simply, go to the study you want to add the photos, and click. the"File(s)..." button. When the next window appears, navigate to your picture(s) to add and highlight them.  Then click the "Import Highlighted Images..." button.

Once you have imported your images to the study you have the ability to do any of the options listed above.

Metron can also work with intraoral cameras including the Acclaim and Polaris.  These products make it easy to take highly focused, close up pictures inside the mouth of your patient.

If you have any questions about adding your photos into Metron, feel free to contact the Metron Support Services Team. 

As many of you have already experienced, it is easier to get a pet owner engaged when you show them pictures.  And small animal dental benefits the most from pictures - pet owners tend not to think about dental care as an important part of overall pet health.

We know that many of you have attempted to create unique presentation documents with MS-Word only to find yourselves learning how to export, import, crop, size, image box, and text box - which turns each document into a challenging project!  The Metron report generator is designed to help you build a visual document very quickly and easily.  Just pick the images you want on the page and type the info you want to display.

Once you have your X-Ray images and photos in Metron, one of your options is to insert those into a report.

Note: Be sure to have added your practice information for the cover page.  This step can be completed at: Preferences, Report Cover Page.

To create a new report, simply click the "Report..." button from the Metron Database Browser window.  You then select the page styles you would like to have included in your Metron dental cleaning exam report. 

As shown above, you can select the X-Ray images and/or photos you want included in your report plus you can add your custom text to narrate the images presented.

The report you create is automatically saved in the patient's study.  You can print the study, send it to someone by email etc.  If you would like to learn more about creating your own reports, view the online training session, "Report Generation in Metron."  

We are also seeing the Metron Forms getting more use.   A form is a tool that helps you to collect and organize a specific set of dental X-Rays and photographs.  If you say you want to produce a "Canine Full Mouth Series", the form will help you to capture all of the images needed for that series.  Metron can capture images right to the mount fields in the form or you can add the form after you have captured your images.

Using forms helps you to develop consistency among your staff.  If you typically take 16 shots for a canine full mouth series, then the form helps remind the staff what shots they need and what shots have already been taken.  This tool is also helpful with training - makes it easy to look at the X-Ray shot collection and point out good images and those that have poor positioning.

If you would like to learn more about Dental Forms, view the online training session, "Acquiring Images into Dental Forms."

Effective June 18, 2012, Metron Support Services will extend the support hours to 8am - 6pm CST. 

Metron has Companion Animal Dental Positioning Guides.  If you need some assistance with your shots, click the   

button available when you are on the dental acquisition screen.

Here you are able to select the shot and size of the cone. 

 

View our online training session

for more details of how to use the "Dental Positioning Guides for Canine and Feline."

When acquiring an image, you are able to acquire direct to forms.  Please see the online training session "Acquiring Images into Dental Forms" to learn the advantages of using this feature.