After years of trail and error, the conclusion is simple as different ceramic systems deliver different results as the shade guides we use are not made from the same material as the dental powders we use. Add a season or two, time of day, rain or shine, indoors or outdoors, you are fighting a loosing battle because there has never been a way to communicate light or color accurately to a ceramic brush under a work bench light that is the wrong light rating to where the shade was taken.

In 2015 while working in the Mojave-Desert a solution had to be found as I was continuously asked to match accurately anterior dentition. That became a complete re-think as no possibility was possible to change what we cannot change. We went back to basics in how find a solution that has ben difficult for forty plus years regardless of where you are. The solution was to drop the shade guides and the notes and pictures of poor quality and look at the issue from the ground up. The direct was to be able to use an image and break it down to what the camera actually without pixel compression. That got us on track to a new direction and a solution.

A Raw (Canon) or NEF (Nikon) image around 50mg carries millions of color information that is not visible to the naked eye, but it is a language the camera uses. has a lot more information than you or we can see. Now we know how to read and use that information it has changed the game. All you need is a DSLR that can take 50mg images in Raw formats and most DSLR cameras can do that.

We have adapted available raw software to accommodate a dental technique and not a photographic technique. All you have to do is set your camera to take a Raw and a Jpeg image at the same time. The JPEG is for filling as a quick view image and the Raw images we break down into optical information, not color information and that tells us a lot more across the Y-axis. So far this has proven very successful.

Six anterior veneers

If you need to match a restoration accurately then we will send you our how to do this paper to setup your camera and how to take six specific pictures. Its dead simple, any member of your team can do this.

All we ask is that you take us a post optative picture to help us continue our development of HCI

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