Your Artful Expertise Combined with Better Photos & ShadeWave’s Toolset = Exceptional Results

ShadeWave helps your dentists provide better photos while also bringing you the tools to color-correct and analyze them with a click of a button.

How it Works

No physical patient contact. No HIPAA violations. Just the information you need.

Dentist takes patient photos

Using ShadeWave Mobile’s iPhone App, or their camera, Dentists will take the patient photos.

Upload into ShadeWave

After the dentists uploads their photos in ShadeWave Mobile, or through the desktop app, their designated lab will be instantly notified of their new case.

Analyze photo & create restoration

Open your case in ShadeWave to color correct & analyze the shade, value and translucency of the teeth, all from the provided photos.

ShadeWave Capabilities

Instant Color Correction

ShadeWave uses the shade tab in the photo to color correct the image.

HIPAA and PIPEDA Compliant Image Transfer

Patient information and photos are stored and communicated to the lab from within ShadeWave’s secure, HIPAA and PIPEDA compliant app.

Value Identification

Sample desired tooth to reveal its value, or the tooth’s brightness. The value is provided in 3D Master and in a second shade guide of your choosing.

Shade Maps

ShadeWave produces accurate, detailed shade maps of the tooth in any desired Shade Guide.

Buy a ShadeWave License

ShadeWave dental lab users pay an annual fee, as well as a small per case fee. Some labs choose to charge this fee back to the dentists, some labs build it into their shade fee, others choose to absorb the cost.

ShadeWave Laboratory License

A ShadeWave Laboratory License allows your lab to use the ShadeWave app to securely receive and analyze dental patient photos.

More details:

  • The license duration is for 1 year.
  • A small per case fee of $4 is additionally charged. (Use case packs can be purchase in groups of 100 cases here.)
  • Your dentists need to have ShadeWave in order to receive and analyze a case from them.

Demo ShadeWave and get your dentist onboard! 

“Color mapping has always been an art form in itself. Selecting the colors is not always an easy task. Shadewave helps eliminate the guess work. By using it has allowed me to get more accurate build ups and less cases coming back for shade modifications.”

Richard G. Knecht RGK Dental Lab, Inc