image: Snapshot of an individual human tooth. The left part is the non-repaired area (displayed as dark) and the right part is the repaired area by our material (displayed as yellow, the color is induced by a fluorescent chemical label so as to have a better contrast). Both insets are scanning electron microscope images of enamel. The white scale bars are 1 μm. 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." view more
Credit: Credit: Zhejiang University