About the archive

DERWeb (the Dental Educational Resources on the Web project) was founded in Sheffield in the 1990s to share high-quality clinical dental photography for teaching. Its image library was distributed to dental schools on a series of six CD-ROMs, each slide scanned from the original 35mm transparency at 2400×1600 pixels and accompanied by a catalogue of scholarly descriptions.

DERWeb Ltd has since been dissolved. In keeping with the project's founding mission — promoting the educational value of these images — the collection has been re-published here as a permanent open archive.

The collection

The archive spans five subject areas — Prosthetics, Oral Surgery, Periodontology, Restorative Dentistry, and a miscellany covering aesthetic dentistry, endodontics, implantology, oral hygiene and orthodontics — drawn from the original six-disc DERWeb CD-ROM set. Where the full-resolution scan did not survive on the source discs, the catalogue entry is retained — clearly marked — together with any surviving preview.

Embedded metadata

Every downloadable image carries its own catalogue record embedded in the file (XMP and IPTC fields: title, description, subject keywords, source and rights). The description travels with the image wherever it goes.

Rights & citation

The images are made freely available for educational and scholarly use. Please cite images in the form:

DERWeb Image Library, image 0000145. derweb.org/image/0000145.html

Contact

The archive is maintained by Referral Management Services Ltd, 61A King Street, Knutsford. Enquiries: cto@dental-referrals.org