Teeth structure discovery by researcher Alban Desoutter -16/01/2023

Alban Desoutter and Frédéric Cuisinier from LBN talk about enamel draping, a discovery that could explain the great strength of our teeth.

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To have long teeth, or to have a grudge against someone, is often to have a hard tooth, or why not a hollow one if you've got fangs. Fangs for munching life to the full or, on the contrary, for chomping at the bit. Expressions referring to our canines, molars and incisors abound in our vocabulary, testifying to the importance we attach to our teeth. In psychoanalysis, Gustav Jung and others even interpreted dreams about teeth falling out as a sign of fear or resistance to change. Don't smile, though, because it was no doubt to spare the little ones from breaking their teeth over this anguish that our imaginations, armed to the teeth, finally gave birth to a mouse so that we could recover our quenottes and peace of mind without waiting for the chickens to get their teeth.

As you can imagine, today's topic has us opening our mouths wide to talk about a scientific discovery that could explain the great strength of our teeth. Alban Desoutter and Frédéric Cuisinier both work at Montpellier's bioengineering and nanoscience laboratory, the former as a technical assistant and PhD student, the latter as a teacher-researcher. Using 3D technology, they have discovered a mysterious structure hidden in the hollows of our teeth, known as enamel drapery. Their findings have been published in the Archives of Oral Biology.

TO READ:

Publication: Human tooth enamel tuft drapes revealed by microtomographyA .Desoutter, I.Panayotov, F.Cuisinier, D.Carayon, Archives of oral biology, September 2022.

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