Microscopy investigations. Techniques, results, limitations

American Journal of Dentistry

Volumn 13, Issue 5 SPEC. ISS., 2000, Pages

  Van Meerbeek, Bart ^a,b   Vargas, Marcos ^b   Inoue, Satoshi ^b   Yoshida, Yasuhiro ^c   Perdigão, Jorge ^d   Lambrechts, Paul ^b   Vanherle, Guido ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENTIN BONDING AGENT; DENTIN BONDING AGENTS;

ARTIFACT; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CEMENTATION; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DENTIN; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARTIFACTS; DENTAL BONDING; DENTIN; DENTIN-BONDING AGENTS; HISTOCYTOLOGICAL PREPARATION TECHNIQUES; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0034329468     PISSN: 08948275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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