Dental Enamel
"Dental Enamel" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A hard thin translucent layer of calcified substance which envelops and protects the dentin of the crown of the tooth. It is the hardest substance in the body and is almost entirely composed of calcium salts. Under the microscope, it is composed of thin rods (enamel prisms) held together by cementing substance, and surrounded by an enamel sheath. (From Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p286)
| Descriptor ID |
D003743
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A14.549.167.900.255
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| Concept/Terms |
Dental Enamel- Dental Enamel
- Enamel, Dental
- Enamel
- Enamels
- Dental Enamels
- Enamels, Dental
Enamel Cuticle- Enamel Cuticle
- Cuticle, Enamel
- Cuticles, Enamel
- Enamel Cuticles
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| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Dental Enamel" by people in Profiles.
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Farrow E, Rengasamy Venugopalan S, Thiffault I, Saunders C. Examination of rare genetic variants in dental enamel genes: The potential role of next-generation sequencing in primary dental care. Orthod Craniofac Res. 2019 May; 22 Suppl 1:49-55.