Photographs data for Clinical performance of light-cured orthodontic adhesives for bonding brackets – an in-vitro study.

Scaled digital pictures of each bracket base were photographed using Canon DSLR 1500 D camera with a 100mm macro lens to take high-resolution photos needed to score ARI . Standardized images of the bases were taken at a distance of 30 cm and an angle perpendicular bracket base, with particular attention to ensuring that each image depicts the whole bracket base and any residual adhesive. The photos were loaded onto the computer and given arbitrary numbers before being saved as digital photographs in the JPEG file format; following this, the base of the brackets with residual adhesive was scanned. An automated count of the number of pixels was performed to compute the ARI percentages using Photoshop software (Adobe Systems inc, Mountain View, calif). This software program automatically calculated the bracket base's adhesive residual surface area percentage.