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Mechanical Strength and Viscoelastic Response of the Periodontal Ligament in Relation to Structure

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Figure 4
Figure 4

Polarised light micrograph of the periodontal ligament (PDL) on the buccal side in an unstained bucco-lingal section of a mechanical specimen. Image analysis was done for each grid (30 × 30 μm), adapted from Kawada and Komatsu [34].

This Article

  1. J Dent Biomech vol. 1 no. 1