Dental enamel is the hardest and most mineralized tissue in extinct and extant vertebrate
species and provides maximum durability that allows teeth to function as weapons and/or …

This review focuses on the process of enamel maturation, a series of events associated with
slow, progressive growth in the width and thickness of apatitic crystals. This developmental …

Mature enamel consists of densely packed and highly organized large hydroxyapatite
crystals. The molecular machinery responsible for the formation of fully matured enamel is …

Hypomineralization of developing enamel is associated with changes in ameloblast
modulation during the maturation stage. Modulation (or pH cycling) involves the cyclic …

Dental enamel formation to destruction Page 1 CRCREV IV ALS Dental Enamel Formation to
Destruction Edited by Colin Robinson, Jennifer Kirkham and Roger Shore CRC Press layºors …

The gene repertoire regulating vertebrate biomineralization is poorly understood. Dental
enamel, the most highly mineralized tissue in mammals, differs from other calcifying systems …

Enamel crystals are unique in shape, orientation and organization. They are hundreds of
thousands times longer than they are wide, run parallel to each other, are oriented with …

Fully matured dental enamel is an architecturally and mechanically complex hydroxyapatite-
based bioceramic devoid of most of the organic material that was essential in its making …

Dental enamel is the most highly calcified tissue in mammals, and its formation is an issue of
fundamental biomedical importance. The enamel-forming cells must somehow supply …

Transcellular bicarbonate transport is suspected to be an important pathway used by
ameloblasts to regulate extracellular pH and support crystal growth during enamel …