How are teeth better than bone? An investigation of dental tissue diagenesis and state of preservation at a histological scale (with photo catalogue)

Table of Contents

• Summary
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Histological Characterisation of Dental Diagenesis – a short review
• 3. Materials and Methods
• 4. Results: Observations and Photo catalogue
  • 4.1 Dental microanatomy
  • 4.2 Bioerosion
  • 4.3 Inclusions and infiltrations
  • 4.4 Generalised destruction and cracking
  • 4.5 Diagenesis and pathologies
  • 4.6 What is this? Unknown features observed
• 5. Discussion
  • 5.1 Bioerosion
  • 5.2 Generalised destruction, infiltrations and inclusions
  • 5.3 Enamel
  • 5.4 Pathologies and diagenesis
  • 5.5 How are teeth better?
• 6. Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography