Relationship between electrical resistance measurements and microradiographic variables during remineralization of softened enamel lesions

Caries Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 60-64

  Wang, Jing ^a   Someya, Yoshiko ^b   Inaba, Daisuke ^b   Longbottom, Chris ^c   Miyazaki, Hideo ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial carious lesion; Demineralization; Electrical resistance; Remineralization; Transversal microradiography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MINERAL; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMINERALIZATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ENAMEL; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DENTAL CARIES ACTIVITY TESTS; DENTAL ENAMEL; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOOTH DEMINERALIZATION; TOOTH REMINERALIZATION;

EID: 10844291539     PISSN: 00086568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000081658     Document Type: Article

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