color stability of different denture teeth following immersion in staining solutions

objectives: this study aimed to assess the color change (δe00) of 7 brands of denture teeth (conventional acrylic and composite teeth) following immersion in staining solutions. materials and methods: maxillary central incisor denture teeth made of 4 conventional acrylic resins (vitapan, sr vivodent pe, beta star and crystal) and 3 composite resins (finex, emeral and phonares ii) were randomly divided into four groups (n=5). denture teeth of different brands were immersed in tea, coffee, cola, and turmeric solutions. the solutions were incubated at 37°c. the baseline color of the teeth was measured using an intraoral spectrophotometer. the color of the teeth was measured after 24 h (δe12), 1 week (δe13), 2 weeks (δe14), and 1 month (δe15). δe00 was calculated and analyzed using one-way anova. pairwise comparisons were performed by the tukey’s post-hoc test (p 0.05). results: the color stability of all teeth was significantly affected by the solutions (p 0.001). the type of tooth and coloring solution had significant interactions at all times (p 0.05). turmeric caused the maximum color change in all teeth after 1 month. repeated measures anova showed that δe00 of all teeth was significantly affected by the duration of immersion in the solutions (p 0.001). conclusion: within the limitations of this study, 1-month immersion of denture teeth in coffee, tea and cola solution altered the δe values; however, they were within the acceptable range, except for beta star. turmeric solution caused unacceptable color change in all denture teeth even after 24 h of immersion.