The Journal of Showa University Dental Society
Online ISSN : 2186-5396
Print ISSN : 0285-922X
ISSN-L : 0285-922X
Scanning Electron Microscopic Observations of the Successional Transformation of Octacalcium Phosphate to Whitlockite in Human Dental Calculus
Tetsuo KODAKA, Masayuki YAMADA
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Keywords: dental calculus, scanning electron microscopy, octacalcium phosphate, whitlockite, transformation
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1994 Volume 14 Issue 3 Pages 203-205

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Abstract

By using scanning electron microscopy, the successional transformation of plate-shaped octacalcium phosphate (OCP) to hexahedral whitlockite (WH) was observed in human dental calculus. Such a transformation indicates that some of the WH crystals are epitaxially formed on OCP crystals.

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