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Electrical and Piezo-electrical Properties of Dental Hard Tissues

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Bassett and Becker1 and Shamas and Lavirie2 have demonstrated that electric potentials occur when specimens of bone are subjected to mechanical stress. Shamas and Lavine have indicated that these effects can be explained in terms of classical piezo-electricity, and not a semiconductor mechanism as suggested by Bassett and Becker; part of the argument against the semiconductor mechanism concerns the dependence of resistivity on temperature.

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    M. BRADEN, A. G. BAIRSTOW, I. BEIDER & B. G. RITTER

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BRADEN, M., BAIRSTOW, A., BEIDER, I. et al. Electrical and Piezo-electrical Properties of Dental Hard Tissues. Nature 212, 1565–1566 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2121565a0

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