Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Accurate shade matching is central to esthetic success in restorative and prosthodontic dentistry. This book reviews the digital technologies transforming shade determination, from the CIELab color space and Delta E metric that provide an objective measurement standard, through spectrophotometers, cross-polarised digital photography, and intraoral scanners with integrated shade analysis. It also examines the growing role of artificial intelligence in predicting ceramic shade shifts and standardizing color communication while highlighting the limits of current evidence. Drawing on peer-reviewed literature, the book concludes that digital instruments offer superior consistency over visual methods, with no single technology addressing every aspect of the problem making a hybrid, multi-modal clinical protocol the most practical path forward.Written for clinicians, postgraduate dental students, and researchers in restorative and esthetic dentistry, this book offers a concise, evidence-based guide to the tools reshaping shade matching in contemporary practice.
