STUDENTS' ABILITY TO DETERMINE THE COLOR OF THE TEETH USING 3D MASTER KEY

• Main Authors: Raluca Draghici (Author), Cristina-Teodora Preoteasa (Author), Elena Preoteasa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Romanian Society of Oral Rehabilitation, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

Aim. To analyze the ability of dental students to visually assess tooth color, by the usage of Vita 3D Master shade guide, by comparing their matching to results of an instrumental method i.e., Vita EasyShade. Method. The study was undertaken on a sample of fifth year students who have registered one another color parameters using Vita 3D Master shade guide. The recordings were made for each left upper central incisor, lateral incisor and upper left canine, and then were compared with instrumental recordings (Vita EasyShade spectrophotometer). Results. A hundred and two dental students were included, 32 being males and 70 females, with a mean age of 24 years old. Lightness level of the tooth was correctly assessed by 22% of the students, another 36% of them being very close to the true level of it, hue was correctly assessed by 53% of the students and chroma by 31% of the students, another 39% of them being very close to the true level of it. Among the incorrect evaluations there was noticed a tendency to evaluate the teeth as having a higher lightness, to be more reddish and saturated than real. Conclusions. Students showed at a group level relative good ability of visually determining the color of the teeth, by the usage of 3D Master Key. The highest concordance of recordings between the visual and spectrophotometric measurements was observed for hue parameter.

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