Comparison of Color Measurements of Postgraduate Dental Students Using Different Color Determination Methods

Launched by HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY · Jan 19, 2025

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ClinConnect Summary

The human eye is effective in detecting subtle differences in tooth color. However, variations in the shade, translucency, opacity, and characterization of a tooth may not be accurately identified. Visual color matching is subject to physiological variables that may lead to inconsistencies, such as age, gender, experience, the type of scale used, varying degrees of light exposure, eye fatigue, and color vision deficiency.

Studies comparing visual and instrumental methods have demonstrated that spectrophotometers yield better results compared to visual color scales. Therefore, it is expecte...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Being healthy individuals,
• • Not having any systemic diseases,
• • Being young individuals (18-40 age range)
• • Vital, decay-free and healthy upper central teeth,
• • Absence of caries-free hard tissue abrasions, any restoration, fracture, crack, intrinsic or extrinsic discoloration in the upper central teeth
• • Lack of removable prosthesis feet for central teeth
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Tetracycline, fluorosis staining of upper central teeth
• • Patients with dentin exposure or loss of bine in the upper central teeth for any reason
• • Pregnant and lactating patients will not be included.