Book review

I'll get straight to the point − this book is superb.

At over 150 pages, many clinicians might feel a book on the ‘fundamentals of tooth colour and shade matching’ sounds like hard work and perhaps not relevant to general dentistry. However, there are two ways of looking at this subject matter. The book is subtitled ‘Shade matching and communication in esthetic dentistry’. One could easily assume that this is aimed at the high end of aesthetic and cosmetic dentistry and, to a degree, it is. The picture quality, the step-by-step case presentations and logical sequencing are a joy for any aesthetically-oriented dentist to read and visualize. However, I would argue that the appeal of a book like this should be far wider as, in truth, anyone who calls themselves a dentist should be able to understand shade matching and a degree of colour science. Every aspect of dentistry can be aesthetic and can be approached in the step-by-step manner which this book uses so well in several of its chapters.