Product Profile: Omnichroma

One-shade universal composite

Tokuyama Dental’s Omnichroma is a universal composite that matches every patient’s tooth shade, from A1 to D4, with a single shade of composite. The composite is the culmination of 35 years of research and development by Tokuyama.

Omnichroma’s innovative technology utilizes structural color to match every tooth shade. Structural color occurs when different wavelengths of light are amplified or weakened by the structure of a material itself, expressing colors other than what the material may actually be. Omnichroma’s 260-nanometer spherical fillers are the precise shape and size necessary to generate red-to-yellow structural color as ambient light passes through the composite. This color combines with the reflected color of the patient’s surrounding dentition, resulting in a match that doesn’t require any added dyes or pigments.

Omnichroma can offer doctors a significant amount of time and money savings. Currently, in the dental industry, doctors need to maintain inventory of several varieties of composite brands and shades to match every patient’s tooth. Often, different shades of composite have to be layered to produce a perfect match for a tooth. Rarely used composite shades are kept in inventory in case a patient comes in with an uncommon tooth shade, yet these shades often end up unused, expiring and getting thrown out. With Omnichroma, doctors no longer need to maintain such a large inventory of composites. Since the composite works with every tooth shade, incidental and rarely used shades will no longer have to be kept on hand. It can ease the burden of composite inventory maintenance and become doctors’ new go-to universal composite.

Omnichroma also saves doctors time by reducing the need for shade selecting. According to a recent survey, about 52 percent of doctors spend 30 to 60 seconds shade matching in restorative procedures. Using one minute as an average and noting that the typical dentist restores 23 caries a week, that adds up to a time savings of almost 20 hours per year by using Omnichroma. The new composite gives this time back to dentists, eliminating the need for shade selecting and streamlining the restorative process.

For more information, visit omnichroma.com/us.