SYSTEM CONSISTING OF A COLOUR SELECTION ASSISTANCE UNIT AND A METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE COLOR OF TEETH

摘要

A system comprising a color selection auxiliary body and a method for determining the colors of a dental object, i.e. tooth, stump or gingiva colors, is provided, the color selection auxiliary body (10) having an essentially U-shaped or L-shaped or ring-shaped structure, on which at least one, preferably 4, reference feature (18), preferably 4, is attached for the recognition of the color selection auxiliary body (10) and wherein, based on the reference features (18), a plurality of tooth, stump or gingiva color areas ( It is provided that an image of a tooth (16) is recorded with the color selection auxiliary body (10) adjacent to it on at least two sides and the tooth color is determined based on this image.