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| Author(s): |
Isabel Maria Porto Lelis
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Piracicaba, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba |
| Defense date: | 2010-08-23 |
| Examining board members: |
Raquel Fernanda Gerlach;
Luciano Bachmann;
José Cesar Rosa;
José Merzel;
Livia Maria Andaló Tenuta
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| Advisor: | Frederico Barbosa de Sousa; Raquel Fernanda Gerlach |
| Abstract | |
The dental enamel is the most highly mineralized tissue in the body. Due to its characteristics, the enamel is highly inert to changes brought about by time and the environment, being a very important source of information for palaeo-, palaeanthropo-, and anthropologists. The enamel proteins are also used for sex identification in forensic science. But protein recovery from the enamel it is a challenging task. Here, we present two studies that describe procedures very effective in providing enamel samples that are adequate for protein analysis. This mineralization could be impaired by diseases like dental fluorosis, for example. In the third study, we analyzed the amino acid profile in the erupted and nonerupted fluorotic human teeth compared to control ones. In this study the cleavage of amelogenin was not affected by fluoride in the fluorotic teeth. In the fourth study we hypothesized that the composition of fluorotic lesions may resemble the enamel found during last wave of enamel mineralization. We found an increase in the organic content and a superficial hypomineralization of the fluorotic enamel, in both erupted and non-erupted human third molars. These data suggest that in both non-erupted and erupted human teeth the fluorotic lesions resembles the late maturation stage enamel, which is not mineralized until maturation is completed (AU) | |