Sedimentary rocks in our mouth: Dental pulp stones made by nanobacteria

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3441, Issue , 1998, Pages 130-137

  Çiftçioglu, Neva ^a   Çiftçioglu, Vefa ^b   Vali, Hojatollah ^c   Turcott, Eduardo ^c   Kajander, E Olavi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b ADISA Ltd   (Turkey)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apatite; Dental pulp stones; Denticles; Mineralization; Nanobacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); DENTAL MATERIALS; DISEASES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STERILIZATION (CLEANING); X RAY SPECTROMETERS;

CARBONATE APATITE; DENTAL PULP STONES; DENTICLES; MINERALIZATION; NANOBACTERIA; X RAY ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROMETRY;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0000949424     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.319828     Document Type: Conference Paper

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