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Dentiphoto E220 Pro · Digital shade guide

7 reasons one shade mismatch costs dentists $600–$1,200 — and how to stop paying it.

The lab fee gets charged twice, the chair time can’t be billed to anyone, and the patient tells people. The E220 Pro reads VITA Classical and 3D-Master in about a second — so the shade you send the lab is the shade that comes back.

VITA Classical A1–D4 and 3D-Master — both results on one screen
Result in about 1 second, with the runner-up shade and ΔE
Its own light source — your operatory lighting stops deciding

Pre-order — $399 See the 7 reasons

30-day money back from delivery1-year Dentiphoto warrantyCE Class II

The Dentiphoto E220 Pro with its packaging on a white background

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Side by side

Dentiphoto E220 Pro vs. classic shade tabs

DENTIPHOTO E220 PRO

Classic shade tabs

Lighting

Adaptive LED, ambient light compensated

Whatever bulb is over the chair today

Consistency

Same reading at 9 a.m. and at 5 p.m.

Depends on your eyes after six patients

Reference

Verified against VITA reference before dispatch

Faded, scratched, autoclaved dozens of times

Shade systems

VITA Classical A1–D4 and 3D-Master, one screen

One guide, one system, tabs swapped by hand

Borderline calls

Nearest shade + runner-up + ΔE value

“A2… or A3? Let’s go A2.”

What the lab receives

A number you can write on the Rx

Your opinion, undocumented

Time per shade

About 1 second

2–5 minutes of holding tabs to the tooth

Cost of a wrong call

$600–$1,200 per remake, unbillable

The seven reasons

Where the money actually leaks — and what closes each hole.

The remake nobody reimburses

When the patient looks in the mirror and says “it doesn’t match,” nobody is paying for the second one but you. The lab fee again — $150–$300. Ninety minutes of chair time across a re-scan and a re-seat, at $400–$800 an hour of production you can’t sell to anyone else. A temporary that has to survive two more weeks. And a patient who now inspects every restoration you place at the nearest window.

Two of those in a year and you are past $1,200 — three times the pre-order price of the device that prevents them.

A patient checking a new restoration — The moment that decides whether you bill it once or twice.

Your operatory light is lying to you

Warm bulbs, a north-facing window, the assistant’s phone flash, a blue scrub top reflecting onto the buccal surface — each one shifts what your eye records. That’s metamerism, and it’s why a shade that looked perfect chairside gets rejected in the parking lot.

Operatory LEDA2

North windowA3

Phone flashA3.5

The E220 Pro carries its own adaptive LED and compensates for the ambient light around it, so the reading is the same in your operatory, at the lab bench, and at that window.

Patient #7 doesn’t get the same eyes as patient #1

Colour perception fatigues within seconds — that’s why the protocol says to look away and reset every few seconds. After a full column of patients, the 4 p.m. shade call is not the call you’d have made at 9 a.m., and the crown that comes back is almost never the one you took your time over.

The device doesn’t fatigue, doesn’t rush, and doesn’t have a seat appointment running eleven minutes behind. One button, about one second, same answer every time.

The E220 Pro reading a shade — Same placement, same second, same answer — at 9 a.m. and at 4 p.m.

You’re matching to a reference that’s been dying for years

Shade guides are consumables that almost nobody replaces. After sterilization cycles, disinfectant wipes, years of operatory light and a few drops on the floor, the A2 in your hand is no longer the A2 in the lab’s porcelain. You match perfectly — to the wrong target.

Every E220 Pro is individually verified against a VITA reference before it ships, and stays there: no calibration routine, no drift, nothing to replace.

A VITA Toothguide 3D-Master shade guide beside the E220 Pro on its charging base — Your reference ages. Its reference doesn’t.

“A1 or A2?” is a question you can’t write on a prescription

Borderline cases are where remakes are born, and hesitation doesn’t travel to the technician — a value does. The E220 Pro shows the nearest shade, the runner-up, and the ΔE colour difference between them, in VITA Classical and 3D-Master on the same screen.

Write it on the Rx and the argument stops being “you got the colour wrong” and becomes a documented handoff between you and the lab.

The device screen showing 3L2.5, B4 and a delta-E value of 2.4 — 3D-Master **3L2.5** · Classical B4 · **ΔE 2.4** — one reading, both systems.

The price goes back to $599 on September 15

This is the digital shade guide 400+ dentists already work with — now built under Dentiphoto’s own brand, which is the better version of it: each unit verified against a VITA reference before dispatch, a 1-year warranty handled directly by us instead of a factory somewhere, support that answers within 24 hours, a chairside quick-reference card in the box, and your plug type chosen at checkout.

$379each · 2 units

$359each · 3–4 units

$319each · 5+ units

$399$599

Save $200 · pre-order

Pre-order now — $399

Cancel any time before dispatch for a full refund.

You risk nothing to find out

Thirty days from the day it lands on your desk — not the day you ordered. Use it on real patients for a month. If your shade calls aren’t faster and more certain, send it back for a full refund.

30-day returnsCounted from delivery

1-year warrantyHandled by Dentiphoto

Tracked shippingFree and insured

The arithmetic

One avoided remake and it has already paid for itself.

What one shade remake costs you

Lab fee, second time$150–$300

90 min of chair time at $400–$800/hr$450–$900

New temporary, extra visits, a patient who now checksnot billable

$600–$1,200One remake, out of your pocket

$399One-time E220 Pro price

Estimated annual leak

Two shade remakes a year and you are losing $1,200–$2,400. The E220 Pro costs $399 — just once.

Pre-order — $399

Who’s already measuring

400+ dentists already stopped guessing. You get the better version of what they bought.

In 400+ operatories this device has already replaced the tab-and-hope routine — shade values go to the lab, not adjectives. What you’re pre-ordering is that device with our name on it, and our name means it’s held to more.

400+

dentists already work with this device

The Dentiphoto edition is the same instrument, held to our checks and our warranty.

A dentist using the E220 Pro chairside while the patient checks the result

✓

Verified one by one

Every unit is checked against a VITA reference before it leaves us — not sampled, not spot-checked. Yours.

✓

Our warranty, not a factory’s

A 1-year claim goes to Dentiphoto, not to a supplier who answers when it feels like it.

✓

Answers in 24 hours

From people who sell dental photography equipment for a living, not a ticket queue.

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Ready for your chair

Chairside quick-reference card in the box, and your plug type picked at checkout instead of an adapter.

They’re already sending numbers to their labs.

The only thing that changes on September 16 is that the same second costs $599.

Join them — $399

Pre-order closes September 15

Stop guessing the shade. Start measuring it.

$399$599Save $200

Pre-order my E220 Pro

In the box: device (112 g, cordless) · charging base · power adapter, US or EU · protective cap · chairside quick-reference card · manual.

30-day returnsCounted from delivery

1-year warrantyHandled by Dentiphoto

CE Class IIFree tracked shipping worldwide

Before you order

Questions dentists ask

How is this different from matching with shade tabs?

An objective measurement against a verified reference instead of an eye under variable light — plus a ΔE number the lab can actually act on.

Which shade systems does it read?

VITA Classical A1–D4 and VITA 3D-Master, both on one screen, from the same reading.

Do I need an app, Bluetooth or training?

No. Place the tip on the middle third of the tooth, press, read the shade.

What about borderline cases?

It shows the nearest shade, the runner-up and the ΔE between them, so you can see how close the call really is.

Does it need calibration?

No calibration routine and no consumables. Each unit is verified against a VITA reference before dispatch.

How long does a reading take?

About one second.

Will it work in my operatory lighting?

It has a built-in adaptive LED with ambient light compensation. That’s the point of it.

Warranty and returns?

One-year warranty handled directly by Dentiphoto, and 30 days money-back counted from delivery, not from your order date.

I have several chairs — is there a discount?

Yes: 2 units at $379 each, 3–4 at $359 each, 5+ at $319 each.

E220 Pro pre-order · $399 instead of $599 · ends Sep 15Pre-order — $399

7 Reasons One Shade Mismatch Costs Dentists $600–$1,200