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Dental Enamel Formation and Implications for Oral Health and Disease Open
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 tools as well as for food processing. Enamel development and …
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Repair of tooth enamel by a biomimetic mineralization frontier ensuring epitaxial growth Open
Study shows the repair of enamel via a biomimetic growth frontier that is constructed from calcium phosphate ion clusters.
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Sex determination of human remains from peptides in tooth enamel Open
Significance The ability to assign biological sex to human skeletal remains is a fundamental requirement in archaeology, paleoanthropology, and medico-legal sciences. While DNA sequencing can be used, it is expensive, time-consuming, and o…
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Amelogenin and enamel biomimetics Open
Mature tooth enamel is acellular and does not regenerate itself.
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Enamel remineralization and repair results of Biomimetic Hydroxyapatite toothpaste on deciduous teeth: an effective option to fluoride toothpaste Open
The use of Biomimetic Hydroxyapatite toothpastes has proven to be a valuable prevention measure against dental caries in primary dentition since it prevents the risk of fluorosis.
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Translucency of human teeth and dental restorative materials and its clinical relevance Open
The purpose was to review the translucency of human teeth and related dental materials that should be considered for the development of esthetic restorative materials. Translucency is the relative amount of light transmission or diffuse re…
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New model to explain tooth wear with implications for microwear formation and diet reconstruction Open
Significance Dental microwear is among the most common proxies paleontologists use for diet reconstruction. Recent models have suggested that while quartz grit adherent to food produces wear of tooth enamel, softer particles, such as silic…
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Cariogenic potential of sweet flavors in electronic-cigarette liquids Open
This study systematically evaluated e-cigarette aerosols and found that the aerosols have similar physio-chemical properties as high-sucrose, gelatinous candies and acidic drinks. Our data suggest that the combination of the viscosity of e…
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Influence of structural hierarchy on the fracture behaviour of tooth enamel Open
Tooth enamel has the critical role of enabling the mastication of food and also of protecting the underlying vital dentin and pulp structure. Unlike most vital tissue, enamel has no ability to repair or remodel and as such has had to devel…
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Tooth Enamel and Its Dynamic Protein Matrix Open
Tooth enamel is the outer covering of tooth crowns, the hardest material in the mammalian body, yet fracture resistant. The extremely high content of 95 wt% calcium phosphate in healthy adult teeth is achieved through mineralization of a p…
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The role of salivary contents and modern technologies in the remineralization of dental enamel: a narrative review Open
Human enamel once formed cannot be biologically repaired or replaced. Saliva has a significant role in remineralization of dental enamel. It not only has a buffering capacity to neutralize the oral cavity’s low pH generated after acidic en…
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Peptide-Based Bioinspired Approach to Regrowing Multilayered Aprismatic Enamel Open
The gradual discovery of functional domains in native enamel matrix proteins has enabled the design of smart bioinspired peptides for tooth enamel mimetics and repair. In this study, we expanded upon the concept of biomineralization to des…
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Characterization of Enamel and Dentine about a White Spot Lesion: Mechanical Properties, Mineral Density, Microstructure and Molecular Composition Open
The study focuses on in vitro tracing of some fundamental changes that emerge in teeth at the initial stage of caries development using multiple approaches. The research was conducted on a mostly sound maxillary molar tooth but with a clea…
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Assessing human weaning practices with calcium isotopes in tooth enamel Open
Significance The practice of weaning, the dietary transition from exclusive breastfeeding to exclusive nonmilk food, is a key aspect of development and evolution of hominins, but its study in the fossil record is hampered by a lack of unam…
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A Chitosan–Agarose Polysaccharide-Based Hydrogel for Biomimetic Remineralization of Dental Enamel Open
Developing multifunctional systems for the biomimetic remineralization of human enamel is a challenging task, since hydroxyapatite (HAP) rod structures of tooth enamel are difficult to replicate artificially. The paper presents the first r…
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Adhesion of Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles to Dental Materials under Oral Conditions Open
Hydroxyapatite nanoparticles (nano-HAP) are receiving considerable attention for dental applications, and their adhesion to enamel is well established. However, there are no reports concerning the effects of HAP on other dental materials, …
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Influence of different types of whitening tooth pastes on the tooth color, enamel surface roughness and enamel morphology of human teeth Open
Background: Tooth whitening usually includes the direct use of gels containing carbamide or hydrogen peroxide on the tooth enamel surface through a wide variety of products formulas. A generally new advancement in whitening of teeth uses t…
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Phase Transformations in a Human Tooth Tissue at the Initial Stage of Caries Open
The aim of the paper is to study phase transformations in solid tissues of the human teeth during the development of fissure caries by Raman and fluorescence microspectroscopy. The study of the areas with fissure caries confirmed the assum…
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Mapping residual organics and carbonate at grain boundaries and the amorphous interphase in mouse incisor enamel Open
Dental enamel has evolved to resist the most grueling conditions of mechanical stress, fatigue, and wear. Adding insult to injury, it is exposed to the frequently corrosive environment of the oral cavity. While its hierarchical structure i…
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A New Tooth Wear–Based Dietary Analysis Method for Proboscidea (Mammalia) Open
Dietary analyses of herbivorous mammals are important for paleoecological reconstruction. Several methods applicable to fossil teeth have been developed lately. The mesowear method based on wear-induced occlusal shape and relief of ungulat…
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Nanohydroxyapatite in dentistry: A comprehensive review Open
Enamel, being the hardest and the highest mineralized tissue of the human body, contains nearly 96% inorganic components and 4% organic compounds and water. Dentin contains 65% inorganic components and 35% organic and water content. The tr…
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A Novel Method for Assessing Enamel Thickness Distribution in the Anterior Dentition as a Signal for Gouging and Other Extractive Foraging Behaviors in Gummivorous Mammals Open
Gummivory poses unique challenges to the dentition as gum acquisition may often require that the anterior teeth be adapted to retain a sharp edge and to resist loading because they sometimes must penetrate a highly obdurate substrate durin…
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Fluoride exposure alters Ca <sup>2+</sup> signaling and mitochondrial function in enamel cells Open
The mechanisms by which excessive fluoride causes defects in tooth enamel mineralization are revealed.
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To What Extent is Primate Second Molar Enamel Occlusal Morphology Shaped by the Enamel-Dentine Junction? Open
The form of two hard tissues of the mammalian tooth, dentine and enamel, is the result of a combination of the phylogenetic inheritance of dental traits and the adaptive selection of these traits during evolution. Recent decades have been …
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The role of salivary contents and modern technologies in the remineralization of dental enamel: a narrative review Open
Human enamel once formed cannot be biologically repaired or replaced. Saliva has a significant role in remineralization of dental enamel. It not only has a buffering capacity to neutralize the oral cavity’s low pH generated after acidic en…
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Advanced materials for enamel remineralization Open
Dental caries, a chronic and irreversible disease caused by caries-causing bacteria, has been listed as one of the three major human diseases to be prevented and treated. Therefore, it is critical to effectively stop the development of ena…
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Quantitative affinity parameters of synthetic hydroxyapatite and enamel surfaces in vitro Open
Particulate synthetic hydroxyapatite (HAP) is rapidly gaining importance as a biomimetic agent in oral care products. The prerequisite for an adequate effect of the treatment is an efficient attachment of the HAP particles to the tooth sub…
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A State-of-the-Art Review on the Wear of the Occlusal Surfaces of Natural Teeth and Prosthetic Crowns Open
This review focuses on the wear mechanisms of natural and restorative dental materials, presenting a comprehensive description and analysis of the works published in the last two decades on the wear at the interface of occlusal surfaces. D…
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A Neandertal dietary conundrum: Insights provided by tooth enamel Zn isotopes from Gabasa, Spain Open
The characterization of Neandertals’ diets has mostly relied on nitrogen isotope analyses of bone and tooth collagen. However, few nitrogen isotope data have been recovered from bones or teeth from Iberia due to poor collagen preservation …
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Calcium isotopic patterns in enamel reflect different nursing behaviors among South African early hominins Open
Calcium isotopic ratios in dental enamel of South African hominins reveal taxon-dependent nursing behaviors.