"If complete invisibility is to be consistently achieved with ease, the use of opaques and tints is absolutely necessary."

Creative Color has been and continues to be the top-rated tinting and opaquing system for the past 15 years. Creative Color was designed for the dentist who desires the ultimate in esthetics. The proper use of opaquers and tints is one of the keys to esthetic dentistry.

• Allows you to create virtually any shade of tooth color.
  
  
• Consistent and predictable accuracy.
  
  
• No mixing required plus more Vita shades.
  
  
• Predictable invisible restorations.
  
  
• Will enhance any composite system. When used in conjunction with Renamel Microfill and Renamel Hybrid you achieve the most esthetic restoration possible.
  

How can Opaquers and Tints be used?

• Directly between bonded tooth surface and overlaying resin.
    
• Between layers of composite resin.
    
• In the surface of the resin to produce hypoplasia, check lines
  and maverick colors.

Where to use Tints and Opaquers

Opaquers:

Creative Color Opaquers were designed to block out unwanted colors beneath the area to be restored. The workable characteristics are:

• Predictable, invisible restorations when used with direct or indirect bonding.
  
  
• Blockout unwanted colors beneath area to be restored.
  
  
• Flows to a glasslike finish and stays where they are placed.
  
  
• Paints on easily - no brush strokes come through.
  
  
• Matches both Renamel Microfill and Renamel Hybrid as well as the Vita shade guide.
  
  
• Paints on easily - no brush strokes come through.
  
  
• Can be mixed and tints stay where you place them.
  
  
• Premixed.
  
  
• Matches both Renamel Microfill and Renamel Hybrid as well as the Vita shade guide.
  
  
• 13 shades. Opaquers cover the entire Vita Shade range, giving you the flexibility to opaque all 16 Vita colors.
  

Tints:

Creative Color Tints are used to impart character to a restoration. The workable characteristics are:

• Premixed to the same viscosity and consistency as the opaquers.
  
  
• Very translucent and polishable.
  
  
• The tints cover the spectrum with fairly intense chroma.
  
  
• Allow you to easily impart incisal translucency and cervical darkening and surface artifacts such as craze and check lines.
  
  
• Also used for occlusal pit and fissure staining.
  
  
• Premixed to the same viscosity and consistency as the opaquers.
  
  
• Very translucent and polishable.
  
  
• The tints cover the spectrum with fairly intense chroma.
  
  
• Allow you to easily impart incisal translucency and cervical darkening and surface artifacts such as craze and check lines.
  
  
• Also used for occlusal pit and fissure staining.
  
  
• Can be mixed and tints stay where you place them.

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