title: Dentist and laboratory: communication for success.
abstract: Currently used shade guides have obvious inadequacies. For example, many porcelain materials do not match their shade guide. But communication between dental practitioner and laboratory technician need not suffer because of these defects. Straightforward and specific written instructions, shade diagrams, casts, and clinical photographs can communicate and produce consistently acceptable esthetic results.
mesh_terms: D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D003116:Color; D003142:Communication; D003793:Dental Restoration, Permanent / Q000295:instrumentation; D003800:Dental Technicians; D003815:Dentists; D004955:Esthetics, Dental; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007754:Laboratories, Dental; D010781:Photography; D055656:Prescriptions