The color of 24 commercially available denture resins was determined visually with Munsell color tabs and by reflection spectrophotometry. Correlation between Munsell and spectrophotometric data was found. The resins characterized for Black patients had a higher degree of specular reflectance and were more opaque than resins for Caucasians.
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