Statement of problem Yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystal has been used as a
dental biomaterial for several decades because the fracture toughness and bend strength …

Objectives The aim of this systematic review is to help the reader in their selection of
analytical techniques for a complete and accurate assessment of artificial caries …

Objective: To analyze macroscopic, microscopic, and ultrastructural aspects of enamel from
head-and-neck cancer patients submitted to radiotherapy. Materials and Methods: Twenty …

Lesion area measurement of enamel caries using polarized light microscopy (PLM) is
currently performed in a large number of studies, but measurements are based mainly on a …

Currently there are no non-destructive techniques to obtain protein from the dental enamel,
the most mineralized tissue in mammals and most resistant to diagenesis, which provides a …

In order to study the impact of ecology on life history evolution, paleobiologists have begun
to take a cue from dendrochronology, and have increasingly been making use of …

Simple Summary The dental enamel is the most mineralized tissue of vertebrates, and its
preservation in fossil records is important to better understand the ancient life and …

This study aimed to test the hypothesis that organic volume is the main variable for
explaining the optical properties and predictive degree of diffusion of enamel histological …

Background and aim Dental enamel presents marked mechanical properties gradients from
outer to inner enamel, a region lacking component volumes profiles. Tufts, structures of inner …

Dental enamel constitutes the outer layer of a crown of teeth and grows nearly parallel. This
unique nanostructure makes enamel possess birefringence properties. Currently, there is …