At Long Last, an Effective Remedy for Tooth Enamel Erosion (2 of 5) (IMAGE)

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At Long Last, an Effective Remedy for Tooth Enamel Erosion (2 of 5)

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Snapshot of the repairing experiment on a human tooth. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the August 30th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Shao at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, and colleagues was titled, "Repair of tooth enamel by a biomimetic mineralization frontier ensuring epitaxial growth."

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Credit: Zhejiang University

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