Patients are increasingly demanding in terms of esthetics. Shade measurement procedures are long and fastidious, the evaluation is subjective, and too often, it represents a source of conflict between dentists and their dental laboratories.
An error concerning the shade can occur in any of the four steps required in making a restoration:
Shade selection: This process is influenced by several factors such as ambient light and human color perception. Nobody sees colors the same way, and a consensus of several observers does not ensure precision nor reliability of the process.
Reporting the shade observed: Recording and reporting the visual appearance of a tooth is a real communication challenge. Subjectivity overshadows the reporting process.
Interpretation of the report: A shade prescription can be interpretated differently by many dental technicians.
Fabrication of the prosthesis: The dental technician tries to translate the interpretation of the shade report into work methods that will assure the best shade matching results.
Each step is a potential source of error and can often lead to prosthesis remakes. Shade matching requires a global solution, i.e. getting the human factor out of the process, making all the information available to the laboratory in an objective way, analyzing each parameter thoroughly and individually and standardizing the process.
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ShadeScan™ Artificial Vision Your Ultimate Solution! |
ShadeScan utilizes the power of artificial perception technology. Human visual perception is embedded in ShadeScan. This creates an intelligent device that perceives and interprets the visual appearance of teeth the same way a human eye does–but with the accuracy and consistency of a computer. It brings you global visual appearance, objectivity, precision, consistency and instantaneous results.
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 Ergonomic Handpiece, with LCD Screen
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Using the ShadeScan In Your Office |
Any dental auxiliary can use ShadeScan to take shades on patients without ever requiring special qualifications. Within minutes of a patient walking in your office, a tooth image can be taken, the user can record and play voice comments, and all this digital data can be sent to your laboratory through the ShadeDisk™ or downloaded onto your own Windows based computer. |
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ShadeScan instantaneously measures shades over the whole surface of the tooth, analyzes and communicates dental shades by generating a complete report: a basic shade map upon any current porcelain system, the tooth image captured with ShadeScan along with an enhanced image (which amplifies the characterization of the tooth) and a translucency map. ShadeScan Plus™ offers additional information such as Value, Chroma and Hue analyses so dental technicians can work with the uttermost degree of precision.
ShadeScan can be used as a diagnostic tool to produce and communicate a precise shade prescription, particularly for fixed prostheses, direct restorations and tooth whitening treatments monitoring. As a result, dentists are able to increase their clinical efficacy, reduce chair time and costs, and practice superior quality of esthetics, for the best patient satisfaction. DT
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