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

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Figure 11

(a) Stress-relaxation as represented by $\text{[math]}$ for rabbit periodontal ligament. Each point and bars represent mean ± 1 SD. (b) Typical example of exponential curve fitting. Measured values (open circles) are well expressed by an equation: $\text{[math]}$ , reproduced from Komatsu et al. (2007) [62], by permission.