Lunch & Learn: Principles of Blending Effect for Color Matching within Adhesive Dentistry
The process of visual shade selection can be simplified by using composite systems that make use of the principles of ‘blending effect’. This can lead to fewer shade tabs with a wider range of matching abilities to its surrounding tooth structure. This Lunch and Learn session will focus on the phenomenon that the shade of a composite can be different before and after placement of the restoration, and the blending effect of different current composite systems.
Attendees will:
1. Learn about the principles of Blending Effect
2. Learn about different composite systems that are based on these principles
3. Learn the results of a scientific study on the evaluation of the blending effect a new composite system using only 5 shades based on the Vita Shade Guide.
Dr. Ghazal Khashayar, received her MSc degree in Dentistry from the University of Amsterdam, ACTA, in The Netherlands in 2007. Since then she has spent half her time in private practice, and the other half in academia. Dr. Khashayar has published several articles and has lectured internationally on color science in dentistry as part of her PhD on ‘The Science of Tooth Color”. Her research experience goes beyond color science as she also lectures in the field of oral scanners and digital impressions in dentistry. She spent the last year of her PhD at Harvard School of Dental Medicine as a visiting research scholar and served as a part time clinical instructor at the department of restorative dentistry and biomaterials sciences. Dr. Khashayar has dedicated the last 9 years to the field of color research in dentistry.
