{"id":26,"date":"2025-07-16T23:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-dentistry.temple.edu\/okerh\/points\/dental-color-matcher\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T23:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:45:16","slug":"dental-color-matcher","status":"publish","type":"points","link":"https:\/\/pro-dentistry.temple.edu\/okerh\/points\/dental-color-matcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Dental Color Matcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"152\" data-end=\"302\"><strong data-start=\"226\" data-end=\"254\">Sponsoring Organization:<\/strong> Society for Color and Appearance in Dentistry<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"280\" data-end=\"579\"><strong data-start=\"280\" data-end=\"296\">Description:<\/strong><br data-start=\"296\" data-end=\"299\" \/>As part of our RD4 course, we completed a dental shade-matching exercise to assess our ability to accurately identify and match tooth colors using shade guides. The assignment was followed by a lecture covering color theory, perception, and clinical influences on shade selection.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"581\" data-end=\"830\"><strong data-start=\"581\" data-end=\"599\">What I Gained:<\/strong><br data-start=\"599\" data-end=\"602\" \/>I learned how lighting, visual fatigue, and environmental factors can affect color-matching accuracy. The experience also helped me become familiar with key terminology and techniques used to ensure consistent esthetic outcomes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"832\" data-end=\"1176\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"26\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Relevance to My Goals:<\/strong><br data-start=\"26\" data-end=\"29\" \/>As someone interested in surgical procedures, this activity highlighted the importance of precision and visual assessment\u2014skills that are essential in cases involving facial trauma, implants, or prosthetic rehabilitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25635,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-dentistry.temple.edu\/okerh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-dentistry.temple.edu\/okerh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-dentistry.temple.edu\/okerh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/points"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-dentistry.temple.edu\/okerh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-dentistry.temple.edu\/okerh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pro-dentistry.temple.edu\/okerh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/pro-dentistry.temple.edu\/okerh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points\/26\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-dentistry.temple.edu\/okerh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}