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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.15644/asc54/4/3

Gender-Dependent Quality of Shade Matching of Dental Professionals and Students

Žarko Udiljak ; Private dental practice, Zagreb, Croatia
Hrvoje Pezo ; Dental polyclinic Ars Salutaris, Zagreb, Croatia
Robert Ćelić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-5197-3465 ; Department of Removable Prosthodontics, School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia


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Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate shade matching ability of dental professionals and students using the VITA 3D-Master shade guide. Materials and methods: A hundred and twenty participants have been assigned to one of four groups as follows: specialists in prosthodontics (SPs), residents in prosthodontics (RPs), dental technicians (DTs) and dental students (DSs). The Tooth-guide Training Box (TTB) was used to test the participants’ shade-matching ability based on using 3 exercises and a final test. The mistakes were recorded during the exercises and mistake ratios (MR) were calculated. Time, scores, and color difference values (ΔE) were recorded and calculated. The one-way ANOVA was used to analyze the differences, and multiple regression analyses were used to evaluate the relationship in mean MRs, time, score and ΔE values between the groups. Results: Male participants needed significantly greater amount of time than females to complete the final test (P<0.05). Male SPs achieved a significantly lower percentage of mistake ratios in second exercise than RPs (P<0.05), needed significantly less time than DSs to complete the final test and achieved significantly higher scores than RPs (P<0.05). Female SPs assessed the highest and DSs and RPs the lowest color differences (P<0.05). The results obtained from the exercises and final tests highly affected the amount of estimated color difference in both male and female groups (by 78% and 76%, respectively). Conclusions: Within the population tested, gender of the participants showed a significant impact on quality of shade matching of dental professionals and students.

Keywords

Tooth Color; Color Shade; Artificial Teeth; Color Perception; Shade Guide

Hrčak ID:

247662

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/247662

Publication date:

14.12.2020.

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