title: Advances in color matching.
abstract: Recent advances in color matching have been driven by the market demand for high-quality esthetic restorations. Improved shade guides, availability of shade-taking devices, and research in the area of human color vision have improved the potential of clinicians to achieve excellent color-matched restorations. A thorough understanding of appearance attributes of natural teeth is required along with these new tools to maximize shade-matching results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Restorative Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, 3435 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 17214, USA. brewer@buffalo.edu
authors.forename: Jane D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Brewer
authors.forename: Alvin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wee
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Seghi
mesh_terms: D003118:Color Perception; D017267:Dental Prosthesis Design / Q000295:instrumentation; D004955:Esthetics, Dental; D006801:Humans; D055095:Optics and Photonics / Q000295:instrumentation; D017797:Prosthesis Coloring / Q000295:instrumentation; D013674:Technology, Dental / Q000295:instrumentation; D014070:Tooth / Q000033:anatomy & histology