Dental Students' Tooth Shade Selection Ability in Relation to Years of Dental Education

Overview

Journal J Family Med Prim Care

Specialty Public Health

Date 2019 Dec 28

PMID 31879651

Citations 8

Authors

Meena Jain

Vishal Jain

Nisha Rani Yadav

Saurabh Jain

Shilpi Singh

Pooja Raghav

Jugpriyana Kohli

Ankur Sharma

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Abstract

Background And Objectives: Perfect tooth shade selection is indispensable for successful esthetic dental restorations. Shade matching is a complex and multidimensional process that involves the cognitive ability of students. Hence, the aim of the present study was to assess and compare the shade matching ability of undergraduate dental students in various years of dental education.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 150 students enrolled in all five class years of the Bachelor of Dental Surgery course in a dental college in India. Each enrolled participant was presented with two exercises to assess shade matching ability. In the first exercise, basic shade matching ability of the students was assessed by a shade tab matching in a bench setting using Vitapan Classical shade guide. In the second exercise, the participants were asked to perform intraoral tooth color matching to evaluate their ability of shade matching in a clinical setup. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 21 and descriptive statistics were applied. Chi-square test was applied to find out significant differences among years of education.

Results: For Exercise 1, 53 participants (35.30%) showed fair color matching ability in bench setting, 26.70% ( = 40) showed good ability, 22.70% ( = 34) demonstrated an excellent ability, whereas 15.30% ( = 23) had a poor ability of color matching. For Exercise 2, where clinical color matching ability of the students was analyzed, 34% ( = 51) obtained fair scores, 33.30% ( = 50) obtained good scores, 26% ( = 39) obtained excellent scores, whereas 6.70% ( = 10) of the participants had poor scores.

Conclusion: This study showed that the clinical performance of dental students for shade matching improved as the years of dental education increased. Also, better outcomes were seen in clinical setting as compared to conditions.

Citing Articles

Impact of Vision Defects on Tooth Shade Selection: A Comparative of Spectrophotometry and Shade Guides in a Cross-Sectional Clinical Study.

Alvarado-Lorenzo M, Lozano-Garcia E, Colino-Gallardo P, Pellicer Castillo L, Diaz-Flores Garcia V, Alvarado-Lorenzo A J Clin Med. 2025; 14(1.

PMID: 39797375 PMC: 11721835. DOI: 10.3390/jcm14010293.

Color match of single-shade restorations after professional dental bleaching: An study.

Forabosco E, Generali L, Mancuso E, Kaleci S, Consolo U, Checchi V J Conserv Dent Endod. 2024; 27(3):280-285.

PMID: 38634019 PMC: 11019804. DOI: 10.4103/JCDE.JCDE_295_23.

Analysis of shade-matching ability in dental students: a comparative study under clinical and correcting light conditions.

Jouhar R, Ahmed M, Heboyan A, Faheemuddin M, Mosaddad S, Ahmed N BMC Med Educ. 2024; 24(1):169.

PMID: 38389076 PMC: 10882879. DOI: 10.1186/s12909-024-05146-2.

Sociodemographic factors associated with knowledge and attitudes of Peruvian dental interns about dental shade selection.

Vasquez-Perez D, Briceno-Vergel G, Ladera-Castaneda M, Cordova-Limaylla N, Cervantes-Ganoza L, Paucar-Rodriguez E BMC Med Educ. 2023; 23(1):975.

PMID: 38115060 PMC: 10731785. DOI: 10.1186/s12909-023-04971-1.

Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Knowledge About Management of Cleft Lip and Palate Patients in Peruvian Dental Students: A Logistic Regression Analysis.

Luyo-Penafiel B, Briceno-Vergel G, Ladera-Castaneda M, Cordova-Limaylla N, Huamani-Echaccaya J, Romero-Velasquez L Adv Med Educ Pract. 2023; 14:1287-1298.

PMID: 38028374 PMC: 10660724. DOI: 10.2147/AMEP.S437637.

References

Alfouzan A, Alqahtani H, Tashkandi E . The Effect of Color Training of Dental Students' on Dental Shades Matching Quality. J Esthet Restor Dent. 2017; 29(5):346-351. DOI: 10.1111/jerd.12284. View

Douglas R, Steinhauer T, Wee A . Intraoral determination of the tolerance of dentists for perceptibility and acceptability of shade mismatch. J Prosthet Dent. 2007; 97(4):200-8. DOI: 10.1016/j.prosdent.2007.02.012. View

Draghici R, Preoteasa C, tancu A, Preoteasa E . Dental color assessment through TTB exercises. J Med Life. 2016; 9(1):61-65. PMC: 5152612. View

Alsaleh S, Labban M, AlHariri M, Tashkandi E . Evaluation of self shade matching ability of dental students using visual and instrumental means. J Dent. 2012; 40 Suppl 1:e82-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.jdent.2012.01.009. View

Chu S . Clinical steps to predictable color management in aesthetic restorative dentistry. Dent Clin North Am. 2007; 51(2):473-85, x. DOI: 10.1016/j.cden.2007.02.004. View

Torok J, Mauks L, Marton S, Hegedus C . [Comparative analysis of some factors in tooth color matching]. Fogorv Sz. 2014; 107(3):79-86. View

Shah A, Hussain R, Fareed M, Afzal M . Prevalence of Red-Green Color Vision Defects among Muslim Males and Females of Manipur, India. Iran J Public Health. 2013; 42(1):16-24. PMC: 3595632. View

Swift Jr E, Hammel S, Lund P . Colorimetric evaluation of vita shade resin composites. Int J Prosthodont. 1994; 7(4):356-61. View

DOUGLAS R . Precision of in vivo colorimetric assessments of teeth. J Prosthet Dent. 1997; 77(5):464-70. DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3913(97)70137-9. View

10.

Davison S, Myslinski N . Shade selection by color vision-defective dental personnel. J Prosthet Dent. 1990; 63(1):97-101. DOI: 10.1016/0022-3913(90)90276-i. View

11.

Da Silva J, Park S, Weber H, Ishikawa-Nagai S . Clinical performance of a newly developed spectrophotometric system on tooth color reproduction. J Prosthet Dent. 2008; 99(5):361-8. DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3913(08)60083-9. View

12.

Jaju R, Nagai S, Karimbux N, Da Silva J . Evaluating tooth color matching ability of dental students. J Dent Educ. 2010; 74(9):1002-10. View

13.

Jasinevicius T, Curd F, Schilling L, Sadan A . Shade-matching abilities of dental laboratory technicians using a commercial light source. J Prosthodont. 2009; 18(1):60-3. DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-849X.2008.00376.x. View

14.

Bahannan S . Shade matching quality among dental students using visual and instrumental methods. J Dent. 2013; 42(1):48-52. DOI: 10.1016/j.jdent.2013.11.001. View

15.

Winkler S, Boberick K, Weitz K, Datikashvili I, Wood R . Shade matching by dental students. J Oral Implantol. 2006; 32(5):256-8. DOI: 10.1563/828.1. View

16.

Ramesh A, Sharma A, Rijesh K, Prakash R, Devi L, Raja E . Assessment of perceptibility and acceptability of color variations between matched teeth among trainee dentist and lay person. J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2015; 7(Suppl 2):S632-5. PMC: 4606675. DOI: 10.4103/0975-7406.163578. View

17.

Sikri V . Color: Implications in dentistry. J Conserv Dent. 2011; 13(4):249-55. PMC: 3010031. DOI: 10.4103/0972-0707.73381. View

18.

Curd F, Jasinevicius T, Graves A, Cox V, Sadan A . Comparison of the shade matching ability of dental students using two light sources. J Prosthet Dent. 2006; 96(6):391-6. DOI: 10.1016/j.prosdent.2006.10.001. View