When matching shades of dental restorations to natural teeth, we employ the Vitapan 3-D shade guide. It's the best guide out there, as it covers the entire range of human tooth shades in a scientific manner. It even accounts for the crazy-white shades on the artificial teeth of Hollywood types, which are not achievable by whitening procedures but only by dental porcelains. (Those are the three on the far left).
Now, it's one thing to look at the guide and contemplate the range of human tooth hues and depths of color:
It's another thing entirely to place 5M3, the deepest, darkest shade, right alongside porcelain restorations that are 1M1, the lightest shade that's consistent with bright clean natural human teeth:
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