Microdiffraction measurements of natural tooth by high resolution X-ray diffraction equipment.
- Author:
Jing XUE
1
;
Wei LI
;
Yunmao LIAO
;
Jinglin ZHOU
;
Jukun SONG
Author Information
1. Key Lab. of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Dental Caries;
metabolism;
Dental Enamel;
chemistry;
Dentin;
chemistry;
Humans;
Tooth;
chemistry;
X-Ray Diffraction;
methods
- From:
Journal of Biomedical Engineering
2008;25(1):65-68
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
The main mineral component of natural tooth was determined as calcium apatite many years ago; most of them exist in the form of hydroxyapatite with different crystallites. If a tooth decayed, the crystalline of hydroxyapatite would be changed and decomposed. In our experiment, a natural tooth with caries was measured by high resolution XRD equipment: X'pert Pro. Three spots which included normal enamel, normal dentin and caries tissue were analyzed. The results showed that tooth was a kind of biological mixed crystal composed of many crystal phases, the main crystal phase was hydroxyapatite. From normal enamel to normal dentin and to caries tissue, the length of the a-axis of hydroxyapatite crystallite increased, the length of the c-axis of hydroxyapatite crystallite remained unchanged. The crystal sizes were: normal enamel D002 = 27.600 nm; normal dentin D002 = 16.561 nm; caries tissue D002 = 13.163 nm. Crystallinity: normal enamel>normal dentin>caries tissue. According to our experiment, tooth could be conveniently studied by high resolution microdiffracion XRD equipment.
