YES YOU NO LONGER NEED TO TAKE A SHADE as that headache is now over.

Take a look at our casework, most if not all is undetectable. Many have tried to resolve the issues of shade taking across three decades but most techniques require too much time, disappointment fees to use software or shade taking gadgets and many developments have not seen widespread use. Most has been a waste of time.Our HCI (Hidden color information) was originally called Color-Mapping and the development slowly began in 2015 when working in the Fort Mojave Desert in Arizona where patients where too far away to reach our laboratory. Now with far more knowledge, more experience and more time spent on its development we now call it HCI.

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HCI is exclusive and unique to OSS DENTAL, it is our in-house service. Its included within the unit price.

The past is over and patients no longer need to visit our laboratory, and dentist no longer need to take a shade and try and communicate what there are seeing. It never really worked, ever as too many variables exist.

All we need now is specific pictures we can use to process in a software adaption technique. No white balance is required either, just RAW or NEF files are required, and the location of the patients residence as we need to know the latitude. Thats all nothing else.

In 1998 I began a global light study to measure average UV light values which ended in 2005. General daylight is an hour long variable as daylight is a constant at twelve hours a day at the Equator and night light is 99% dark at midnight.

In europe around fifteen hours a day and in Finland where I started this study was averaging twenty hours a day. In 2005 I began to put this together into a color map based on averages by determining UV light inclusions.

To explain this in simple terms, an Emax unit in London will look more dull at midday and far brighter at midday in Las Vegas on the same day and at the same season in the year.
Or why is it a dentist will take the shade A3 in the summer but choose D3 in the Winter. Both are due to day-light values (lumens) and UV energy in Ev (electron-volts) variables related to latitude. So how we load the ceramic needs to be understood to reduce optical opacity balanced to translucency and latitude is the indicator to adjust the ceramic.

All the single unit custom work presented on our website was calibrated to location, not season or time of day and but an average. HCI then is a process to follow three dimensional layering maps.

Ninety-five percent of our case images on this website is undetectable. We now use what the camera saw not what you think you are seeing. The solution came from a light study we undertook from 1996 to 2001 that covered most of the Northern Hemisphere down to almost the Equator. Go to our HCI page for more details in how you can use this service we provide.