Tooth Color and Whitening - Digital Technologies

Abstract

Objectives: To review the key concepts of color in the dental domain with specific reference to the use of digital technology to measure color and color appearance.

Materials and methods: The literature on color assessment in dentistry is considered and methods for assessing whiteness, yellowness and color appearance are collated and described.

Results and conclusion: A variety of methods for assessing color have been shown to exist and be viable including digital imaging. Equations to predict whiteness are identified; there is evidence that they are effective but further evaluation may be needed.

Metadata

Authors/Creators:

Pan, Q
Westland, S https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3480-4755

© 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Journal of Dentistry. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy

Keywords:

tooth whiteness; tooth yellowness; whiteness index; visual assessments; CIE color space

Dates: