Neonatal lines in the enamel of primary teeth-A morphological and scanning electron microscopic investigation

Archives of Oral Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 954-963

  Sabel, Nina ^a,b   Johansson, Carina ^c   Kühnisch, Jan ^d   Robertson, Agneta ^a,b   Steiniger, Frank ^e   Norén, Jörgen G ^a   Klingberg, Gunilla ^f,g   Nietzsche, Sandor ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Public Dental Service   (Sweden)

^c Örebro Läns Landsting ^*  (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^f National Orofacial Resource Centre for Rare Disorders Goteborg   (Sweden)

^g MALMÖ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Microradiographs; POLMI; SEM; XRMA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECIDUOUS TOOTH; ENAMEL; HUMAN; INCISOR; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; MOLAR TOOTH; NEWBORN; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TOOTH FLORA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DENTAL ENAMEL; HUMANS; INCISOR; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MOLAR; TOOTH GERM; TOOTH, DECIDUOUS;

EID: 49149123574     PISSN: 00039969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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