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Microtribology of Human Teeth

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Due to its excellent mechanical and tribological behavior, enamel is one of those unique natural substances that still cannot be substituted effectively for with artificial restorative materials. As shown in Fig. 5.1, enamel uniquely consists of aligned “prism-shaped” rods (4–8 μm in diameter), which run approximately perpendicular from the dentin-enamel junction (DEJ) toward the tooth surface [1].

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  1. Tribology Research Institute, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China

    Zhong-Rong Zhou, Jing Zheng & Lin-Mao Qian

  2. West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China

    Hai-Yang Yu

  3. Institute of Advanced Materials and Technology, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Yu Yan

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Zhou, ZR., Yu, HY., Zheng, J., Qian, LM., Yan, Y. (2013). Microtribology of Human Teeth. In: Dental Biotribology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4550-0_5

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