Shade Selection – Basic for Esthetic Dentistry: Literature Review

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Nimy Rajan
Rani Krishna S
Amy Rajan
Geetanjali Singh
Lucky Jindal

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Shade selection is one of the important aspect of esthetic dentistry. In present scenario patient seeks dental treatment under two situations: pain and esthetics. For esthetics every dentist should know the shade matching procedures. Shade matching includes knowledge of Color (hue, value and chroma), Translucency and opacity Gloss, Surface toughness, Opalescence, Iridescence, Fluorescence and Luminescence Phosphorescence and Metamerism. The aim of this article is to ‘open the doors of perception’ so that the entire dental team can comprehend and use color in daily practice and proper shade selection can be done to provide good esthetics to patient.

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