Stephen J Bonsor

BDS(Hons), MSc, FHEA, FDS RCPS(Glasg), FDFTEd, FCGDent, GDP, Teviot Dental Practice, 20 North Bridge Street, Hawick; Programme Director/Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Edinburgh

Email:sbonsor@exseed.ed.ac.uk

The art of clinical shade matching of resin-based composite materials

Traditionally, a shade guide, which is a range of shade tabs, was used by the dentist to determine the required shade of material to be employed by matching the shade of the natural tooth to the...

So, you want to get published? Here's how!

The first piece of general advice is to choose a topic which is of interest to the potential author or authors. This sounds obvious, but if a topic is chosen in which the author is not invested from...

Fundamentals of shade matching

Visible light is electromagnetic radiation at wavelengths in the range of 400–700 nm. If light is transmitted through an optical prism, the light is refracted, varying with the wavelength of the...