Polarizing microscopy of sound enamel. Combined polarized light, microradiographic and scanning electron microscopic investigation
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Tangential sections cut from six sound human premolars were inhibited in water, air and Thoulet solution, in order to investigate the influence of form birefringence, intrinsic birefringence and crystallite orientation on total birefringence. Quantitative microradiographic and scanning electron microscopic techniques were used to obtain information about the volume percentage mineral and the direction of the prisms. The results indicate that there is a positive linear correlation between the mean total birefringence and the mean volume percentage mineral occlusally. In the cervical area there is no such correlation and the influence of the prism direction is more marked. The range of the total birefringence values is lower than normal due to the influence of the prism direction in these tangentially cut sections.
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TNO Identifier
280762
ISSN
00086568
Source
Caries Research, 11(5), pp. 293-300.
Pages
293-300
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