Dental camera handpiece for creating intraoral recordings, comprising: • lighting means for illuminating an object situated in front of an entrance window of the camera handpiece, • an optical system for imaging the object onto an image sensor, • a digital image sensor for capturing the object imaged on the sensor with the aid of the optical system, the lighting means being designed to illuminate the object situated in front of the entrance window of the camera handpiece in accordance with three different recording modes, with the spectral composition of the light emitted by the lighting means being different for each recording mode, and the optical system comprising a filter commonly used for all three recording modes which is disposed upstream of the image sensor, the transmission spectrum of said filter having a first bandpass which substantially corresponds to the wavelength range of visible light and a second bandpass whose wavelengths are in the infrared range, the first bandpass being separated from the second bandpass by a blocking range in which the filter substantially blocks the wavelength range thereof, with the lighting means being designed: • to illuminate the object with visible light in a white-light recording mode, • to illuminate the object with excitation radiation in a fluorescence diagnosis mode, the spectral composition of said excitation radiation being substantially located below the visible light, with the wavelength range of the excitation radiation being separated from the first bandpass of the filter by a second blocking range in which the filter substantially blocks the wavelength range thereof, and • to illuminate the object with light in a transillumination mode, the wavelength range of said light being substantially located within the second bandpass of the filter. • lighting means for illuminating an object situated in front of an entrance window of the camera handpiece, • an optical system for imaging the object onto an image sensor, • a digital image sensor for capturing the object imaged on the sensor with the aid of the optical system, the lighting means being designed to illuminate the object situated in front of the entrance window of the camera handpiece in accordance with three different recording modes, with the spectral composition of the light emitted by the lighting means being different for each recording mode, and the optical system comprising a filter commonly used for all three recording modes which is disposed upstream of the image sensor, the transmission spectrum of said filter having a first bandpass which substantially corresponds to the wavelength range of visible light and a second bandpass whose wavelengths are in the infrared range, the first bandpass being separated from the second bandpass by a blocking range in which the filter substantially blocks the wavelength range thereof, with the lighting means being designed: • to illuminate the object with visible light in a white-light recording mode, • to illuminate the object with excitation radiation in a fluorescence diagnosis mode, the spectral composition of said excitation radiation being substantially located below the visible light, with the wavelength range of the excitation radiation being separated from the first bandpass of the filter by a second blocking range in which the filter substantially blocks the wavelength range thereof, and • to illuminate the object with light in a transillumination mode, the wavelength range of said light being substantially located within the second bandpass of the filter. • to illuminate the object with visible light in a white-light recording mode, • to illuminate the object with excitation radiation in a fluorescence diagnosis mode, the spectral composition of said excitation radiation being substantially located below the visible light, with the wavelength range of the excitation radiation being separated from the first bandpass of the filter by a second blocking range in which the filter substantially blocks the wavelength range thereof, and • to illuminate the object with light in a transillumination mode, the wavelength range of said light being substantially located within the second bandpass of the filter.