UV Showing Dental Work

[bvf]

On holiday recently I took this picture of a friend to illustrate how skin with sunblock looks when photographed in UV. Not a great picture - handheld, ISO 26,500, not well focussed, and it would have been better with the sunglasses off.

 

But what interests me is the purple blob on the left front tooth. I thought that perhaps a bit of sunblock had got on the tooth - but it turns out this was dental work to repair a broken tooth. Completely invisible to the naked eye.

 

 

Sony A6000, Cassar S, Baader U, white balanced against PTFE.

[colinbm]

Ha ha, it is the UV putty the dentist uses now-a-days...:-)

Col

[Andrea B.]

I have some teeth like that! But I'm not sure I want to UV photograph them.

Now that I think about it, I'm not even sure what was used to cover them. Porcelain I think. I know they do fluoresce a bit under the UV-Led.

 

It's always interesting to see such things in UV.

[GaryR]

Great stuff!