Doç. Dr. Bora Korkut

Clinical Tips for The Optimum Shade Matching in Anterior Composite Restorations

Esthetic demands as well as the minimally invasive treatment preferences of the patients, led to direct composite materials to be selected more often for the anterior restorations today. As a result of the recent advancements in mechanical and optical properties of these materials, operators are able to provide highly esthetic as well as long lasting direct restorations in arelatively a short period of time. Shade matching with the natural dental tissues is very important forsuccessfull anterior composite restorations, that meet the esthetic demands of the patients. The restorative steps such as material selection, shade selection, layering technique, and finishing procedure should be performed in a correct way to obtain an optimal shade matching, clinically. Otherwise, the possible shade matching problems may lead to the total renewall of the restoration. This lecture is about the clinical tips to obtain an optimal shade matching in anterior composite restorations, and these tips will be discussed in details with reason / result relationship, through the clinical cases