Human Enamel - Elegantly Designed Natural Biocomposite

ISBN-13: 9783639129441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 136 str.

Lihong He

Opis

As the outer cover of teeth, enamel is the hardest,stiffest and one of the most durable load-bearingtissues of the human body. Material scientists areinterested in the structure and function of thenatural material. How does nature design the materialto meet its functional needs? While dentalpractitioners are keen to know the properties ofenamel and compare it with different dentalmaterials. What kind of dental materials can bestsimulate enamel as a restoration in the oral cavity?The content of this book will attempt to provideanswers or indications to the above questions. Bearing the assumption that the hierarchicalmicrostructure and trace protein remnants in enamelregulate the mechanical behaviour of the naturalbiocomposite in mind, the nano-mechanical propertiesof human enamel was thoroughly explored by themost-advanced nanoindentation, SEM and vibrationalspectroscopy technologies. The outcomes successfullyinterpreted how microstructural and compositionalfeatures of enamel regulate its mechanical behaviour.The new information and analytical methods providedby the book will be of benefit to dental materialdevelopment, evaluation and selection.

O autorze

Lihong He, BDS, MDS, PhD: Studied biomaterials at the University
of Sydney. Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago, New
Zealand.