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Biomaterials

Biomaterials

More than just teeth

22 Jun 2018
This article first appeared in the 2018 Physics World Focus on Biomedical Physics

Materials scientist Michele Barbour explains how the dental community is driving innovation in biomaterials with applications that stretch far beyond standard fillings and crowns

A welcoming environment: Scanning-electron micrograph of bacteria on the surface of human teeth. (Image courtesy: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library)
Dentists are fascinating people. Multiskilled and multidisciplinary by nature, these renaissance wom

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