Dental Materials
Volume 26, Issue 4 , Pages 326-336 , April 2010

Quantification of dental erosion—A comparison of stylus profilometry and confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM)

  • Erik Heurich

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Materials Science and Technology (IMT), Chair in Materials Science, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Löbdergraben 32, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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  • Markus Beyer

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Materials Science and Technology (IMT), Chair in Materials Science, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Löbdergraben 32, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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  • Klaus D. Jandt

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Materials Science and Technology (IMT), Chair in Materials Science, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Löbdergraben 32, D-07743 Jena, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 3641 9 477 31; fax: +49 3641 9 477 32.
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  • Joerg Reichert

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Materials Science and Technology (IMT), Chair in Materials Science, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Löbdergraben 32, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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  • Volker Herold

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Materials Science and Technology (IMT), Department of Surface and Interface Technology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Löbdergraben 32, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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  • Matthias Schnabelrauch

      Affiliations

    • Innovent e.V. Jena, Prüssingstr. 27B, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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  • Bernd W. Sigusch

      Affiliations

    • Department of Conservative Dentistry, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, An der alten Post 4, D-07740 Jena, Germany

Received 23 July 2009 ,Revised 2 November 2009 ,Accepted 2 December 2009.

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PII: S0109-5641(09)00505-3

doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2009.12.001

Dental Materials
Volume 26, Issue 4 , Pages 326-336 , April 2010

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