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Surgical Photography - Imaging for Medical Professionals

Don Allen Studios is the leader in surgical photography with over 50 years’ experience for the medical community in the Tri-State Region, encompassing New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. We provide high quality surgical photography that meets the needs of surgeons, dermatologists, and other medical professionals.

Surgical photography covers a wide spectrum of services, ranging from before and after photos for surgeons, to baseline total body photography. The medical profession relies on accurate imaging for diagnosis, evaluation, and presentation. And we handle all aspects of surgical photography for you and your patients, including on premise studios, and record keeping. Our photographic stills appear in the profession’s top medical textbooks. We can also capture a surgical procedure in full detail through the use of videotape. Our documentation is designed to assist surgeons in their teaching and publishing needs.

At Don Allen Studios, we've developed surgical photography procedures that create the utmost in consistent, reliable visual documentation for plastic and reconstructive surgery. For instance, our lighting ensures that the patient’s appearance is completely realistic, providing the surgeon with the perfect surgical photography tool from which to work. There are a number of reasons why physicians rely on surgical photography.

Dermatologists rely on our surgical photography expertise, which helps them detect signs of skin cancer through mole mapping. This surgical photography procedure involves creating over 30 baseline images of a patient’s whole body. These images are followed up over time in order to track changes in the skin, such as new moles or changes in existing moles. Such changes could indicate the possibility of melanoma.

Medical professionals also rely on our surgical photography services for their presentations. Because we have specialized in surgical photography for the medical professional for over 50 years, we completely understand the medical profession, and what is needed for persuasive medical presentations. Our approach to surgical photography gives this work a clean, modern look that is quickly and accurately grasped by audiences. We can prepare the most elegant and persuasive materials for your presentation.

We can convert our surgical photography, medical illustrations, and radiological images into slides, prints, or digital images, which can be used in PowerPoint presentations, journal articles or book chapters. Our Graphics Department can create title slides; bar, pie, and line graph slides, and multi-image slides using our surgical photography expertise.

Some of the top medical textbooks in plastic and reconstructive surgery feature the surgical photography of Don Allen Studios. Author Thomas D. Rees, M.D., F.A.C.S., credits the Don Allen Studio’s “superb medical photography” as an important factor in the success of his award-winning textbook Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.

Before and after photos are used by plastic and reconstructive surgeons. And some surgeons use surgical photography during surgery to help them document the procedure.

Our surgical photography expertise is used to assist in plastic and reconstructive surgery, dermatology, and medical presentations Don Allen Studios is often called upon to document the surgical procedures associated with plastic and reconstructive surgery. Our surgical photography appears in some of the medical profession’s top textbooks. We can also capture a surgical procedure in full detail through the use of videotape. Our documentation is designed to assist surgeons in their teaching and publishing needs. These are just a few areas where our surgical photography has contributed to the medical and legal professions.

It’s important to us to create a comfortable experience for the patients we photograph. Because certain types of surgical photography, such as mole mapping, require whole body photography, our staff includes both male and female photographers. If you’re a patient whose whole body will be photographed, do let us know whether you prefer a male or female photographer when you call for your appointment.

Don Allen Studios maintains its own surgical photography processing facilities, allowing us to tightly control the quality of the images, and ensuring patient privacy and confidentiality.

Whether you’re a physician or a patient, you can rest assured that when you rely on Don Allen Studios, you’ll receive the highest quality in surgical photography and the utmost care in patient comfort and confidentiality. Medical professionals know they can trust us with all their surgical photography needs.