This document discusses color and light perception as they relate to aesthetics in prosthodontics. It covers the nature of light as both particles and waves, how white light is composed of all visible wavelengths, and color measurement in terms of hue, value, and chroma. Additive and subtractive color mixing are explained using primary colors. Factors that can affect color perception like lighting, color blindness, and metamerism under different light sources are also outlined.
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COLOR IS PROBABLY THE MOSTCOLOR IS PROBABLY THE MOST
IMPORTANT DETERMINANT OFIMPORTANT DETERMINANT OF
EASTHETICSEASTHETICS
IN PROSTHODONTICSIN PROSTHODONTICS
► ESTHETIC IS THE FIRST DEMAND OFESTHETIC IS THE FIRST DEMAND OF
PATIENTSPATIENTS
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The nature of lightThe nature of light
►Light is electromagnetic (EM) radiation,
the fluctuations of electric and magnetic
fields in nature
►Light has the properties of both particles
and waves.
►Light particles, called photons, radiate
from their source in a wave pattern at a
constant speed of 186,000 miles per
second.
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► They are measured by wavelength, the distance
between two crests (in meters or, sometimes, in
angstroms which are 1/100,000,000th of a meter),
and by amplitude, the vertical distance between
the crest and the trough.
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The part of the spectrum
below 380 includes:
ultraviolet
x-ray
gamma rays
The wavelengths longer than 750:
infrared
microwaves
Television and radio waves
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PURE WHITE LIGHTPURE WHITE LIGHT
► Equal quantitition of
energy over the visible
range
► When passed through a
prism white light is
broken down into its
component wave lenghts
► Longer waves are
reflected less than
shorter ones
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Subtractive color mixingSubtractive color mixing
► Primary colors:
red yellow blue
► Secondary colors :
orange green violet
► Complementary colors
Black
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Additive color mixingAdditive color mixing
•. Primary colors
Red Green Blue
• Secondary colors :
Yellow Cyan Magenta
•Complementary colors
White
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FACTORS EFFECTING COLORFACTORS EFFECTING COLOR
PERCEPTIONPERCEPTION
►DECEPTIVE COLOR PERCEPTION :
complementary color effects each
other and when placed side-by-side
they may appear to increase chroma
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FACTORS AFFECTING COLOR
PERCEPTION
►COLOR BLINDNESS: very few
cannot see color at all,most have an
inability to detect the differences in
chroma (this is called
monochromatism)
►requires then an alternative method
of shade selection:
-use of office staff
-spatial training to overcome or adapt
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LIGHT IN DENTAL OFFICELIGHT IN DENTAL OFFICE
► Most common lighting is
either:
► incandescent
► fluorescent
► Neither is pure white light
► -incandescent is higher
yellow than blue
► fluorescent is higher than
blue waves
When placed side by side they appear to have a higher chroma
When mixed they have the opposite effect : they neutralize each other
Knowledge of the effect of complementary hues on each other is the key to precise shade control
Most teeth contain small amount of all three primary shades.
Thus green and violet ,which are not normally teeth colors ,can be helpful in reducing red or yellow in tooth shade.