Are you busy writing your own image database package? I thought so. Why not try VisiQuick? It has all (most) of the features you'll ever need.

Here are a few keywords that you, as a dental university, might appreciate:

• For obvious reasons, VisiQuick doesn't cost anything for the universities!
• Acquire photos from any source: Classical X-Rays, Digital X-Rays, Classical Cameras, Digital Cameras, Extra/Intra-Oral Cameras, Flatbed scanners.
• Digital Subtraction on-screen.
• Single-photo bone change measurements using sound bone with bone lesions.
• Cephalometric measurements on-screen.
• Image enhancement on-screen (gamma, raleigh, hyp. log, ...).
• Endo-file measurements on-screen (5 different endo measurement techniques).
• Multi-dentists capable (if needed, each dentist have his/hers own patient database).
• View photos at the chair, the desk, the hygienist, in short, on any pc in your practice.
• Scan incoming documents and file them with the patient.
• Send photos to universities abroad, laboratories, insurance companies with a single click.
  Keep patient data secure using powerful 'PGP' encryption.
  Data structures have fields for Country and E-mail addresses.
• Even if you haven't got a digital Cephalometric or Panoramic X-Ray machine, you can still file such photos with the patient, using any flat-bed scanner with a transparancy unit.
• Scan classical bite-wing and solo x-ray photos, using any flat-bed scanner with a transparancy unit.