Description Single central shade matching is considered one of the most challenging tasks in our daily work, it can cause frustration to both the dental technician and the dentist. For many years the results we had when making a single central were unpredictable as they were depending on the judgment of the human eye, which cannot perceive and translate the exact shade of the target tooth. We had to do many trials and repetitive corrections because we didn’t have the scientific knowledge and we were missing answers to some valid questions: • Why crowns end up in lower value than the target tooth • Which dentin powders we should use to have an identical shade match • Which skin enamel to choose • How to successfully recreate the incisal canvas and mamelon structure • Which substructure to use and in which thickness to choose it, especially when masking the background is essential • What we should do when we have only 0.5 mm space for our ceramic • How to have a single central shade match when working on refractory material. These are all blindspots that we have in the difficult task of making a single central. In this course, all the blindspots and the dilemmas that you have will be answered and you will gain confidence when making a single central crown or any other case where color matching is important. To make this possible you should make use of Optishade Styleitaliano. This will help you to accurately measure the tooth color. Then, the reasonable question is how would you translate the measured tooth color into the lab process? For this reason, We have created a Shade Matching Software for dental technicians, MATISSE, the acronym for ”Matching Any Tooth In Shade So Easily” ( www.matisse.ai). With MATISSE and OPTISHADE achieving a color match is easy, fast and predictable.