During our period in Europe I was contracted to help develop a dental ceramic system. I was then contracted to teach ceramics and work as an independent at several dental laboratories. Each country is different in terms of light values and in most places in Europe a sense of color prevails towards a more natural range of tooth colors. In North America color is more represented as a brighter, whiter shade range but natural dentition has translucency as well. This is actually more difficult to master as white requires more brightness which means increased opacity, but in skilled hands it can look fabulous.