Correctly determining the tooth shade is an essential treatment step in esthetic reconstructive dentistry. Color is probably one of the most important determinants of esthetics in dentistry. Factors such as lighting conditions, gender, age, experience, and color vision impairment affect the process of shade matching. These deficits brought about the desire for an objective and reproducible shade determination method with digital devices for shade determination. One of the most proven and frequently used digital shade determination devices is the "VITA Easyshade" (VITA Zahnfabrik, Bad Säckingen, Germany). At this point in time, there are no (published) reports on the measurement accuracy of the new VE 5. In addition, there are, as of yet, no investigations comparing the VE 4 and VE 5.
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