Color Flashcards
What is the Esthetic Triad?
Shape, Texture, Color
Pigment, Color Tone (red, blue, yellow)
Hue
Intensity or degree of saturation and purity of a color tone (hue)
Chroma
The degree of color brightness
Value
Is more value mean that it is lighter or darker?
lighter
The ability to absorb radiant energy and emit it in the form of a different wavelength
Fluorescence
The ability of a translucent material to appear blue in reflected light and red-orange in transmitted light
Opalescence
The degree to which light is transmitted rather than absorbed or reflected
Translucency
What do rods perceive?
the brightness of the color, the intensity of the light rays
What do cones perceive?
the hue (color)
Where is the color of teeth derived from?
dentin
Enamel modifies the dentinal body color, … the brightness (value) and acts as a selective light filter
increasing
What color is dentin generally?
reddish yellow
What does dentin posses that makes it fluorescent; light is reflected back with more energy than the original?
phytochrome and fluorophore
When does Dentin have the higher chromaticity?
when older; slow increase in orange-red color