Shade Matching By Dental students in Prosthodontics & Endodontics: Research study

Mohammad Arif Lone; Shahnaz

Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2019

Shade Matching By Dental students in Prosthodontics & Endodontics: Research study

Mohammad Arif Lone, Shahnaz

Abstract :

The aim of esthetics in dentistry is to provide life in prosthesis and to help patient for being acceptable in society. Various clinicians have their own methods of assuming shades. Some assume by arranging shade tabs by the lightness or darkness of the color. The present study was undertaken with the aim of evaluating the knowledge of dental graduates in shade selection of teeth and to find out the shade most commonly mismatched.  Materials & method: 25 dental students participated in the study. A shade tab of vita classical was taken and markings were covered with the help of tape. Another vita classical shade guide was taken and used as control. Each student was subjected to 10 unmarked shade tabs separately for shade selection against the Vita shade guide classical, which was used as control and asked to correctly identify the shade. An A4 sheet of gray card was used to rest the subject’s eyes between shade assessments. Results: Out of 250 readings, 185 readings were found to be correct, 54 readings were found to be incorrect and remaining 11 cases were failure to identify the shades. In respect to A2, 20 readings out of 25 were found to be correct, in relation to A3, 18 were found to be correct, In A3.5–14 readings, In B1– 23 cases, In B2– 18 cases, In B3– 13 cases, In C1– 17 cases, In C2– 15 cases, In C3– 21 cases and in D2– 14 cases respectively. A significant difference does exist between the shades when tested for significance at the level of 0.001 Conclusion: The results of the present study suggest that Hue is the most difficult factor assessed by dental graduates. B1 was most correctly matched and maximum difficulty was in identification of B3, A3.5 and D2, all three being identical.