THE TOOTH ENCHANTED BY LIGHT

Adapting the optical characteristics of an anterior tooth restoration to match the surrounding natural dentition is one of the greatest challenges in our profession.

Natural teeth can vary enormously in terms of their optical characteristics.

Correctly understanding and recreating transparency, translucency, opalescence, opacity and color is one of the most important manageable aspects of esthetic restoration.

I would like to use some of my photographs to help illustrate just how complex the interplay between light and natural dentition can be.

The light source is the key factor when we look at tooth color. It is therefore essential that we understand how incident light interacts with the natural tooth substance if we wish to improve our communication and put our insights into practice.

Although we live in an age driven by cutting-edge technology, we just not forget how important creativity is in our chosen profession- by restoring just a piece of natural that was lost, we can improve the well-being of a great number of people.

I believe that this can only be achieved if we approach our work with feeling and passion.

Without emotion there is no beauty !

( Claude Sieber, photographer and ceramic technician in Basel, Switzerland )