Composite shade guides and color matching.
Finding reliable systems that can help the clinician match the color of direct composite restorations is often an issue. After reviewing several composite shade guides available on the market and outlining their main characteristics and limits (unrealistic specimen thickness, not made with the same material the clinician will use, only a few allow to overlap enamel tabs on dentin ones), the authors evaluated the reliability of a system designed to produce self-made standardized "tooth-shaped" shade guide specimens. Small changes in composite enamel thickness may determine huge differences in esthetic outcomes. In conclusion, the results showed that all the specimens demonstrated comparable enamel thickness in all the examined areas (cervical, middle, incisal).
Gaetano
G
Paolone
Giovanna
G
Orsini
Jordi
J
Manauta
Walter
W
Devoto
Angelo
A
Putignano
D003116:Color; D003188:Composite Resins / Q000737:chemistry*; D003743:Dental Enamel / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D003764:Dental Materials / Q000737:chemistry*; D017267:Dental Prosthesis Design / Q000295:instrumentation; D003804:Dentin / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D004955:Esthetics, Dental; D006801:Humans; D008027:Light; D011109:Polymethacrylic Acids / Q000737:chemistry; D017797:Prosthesis Coloring / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013499:Surface Properties
C520091:CeramX; D003188:Composite Resins; D003764:Dental Materials; C507124:Estelite sigma; C474035:Filtek Supreme; C470230:Gradia; C539358:Herculite Ultra; D011109:Polymethacrylic Acids; C452441:Synergy composite resin; C488393:Venus (composite resin); C541508:clearfil majesty; C444445:renamel microfill