A healthy dentition should show shiny white tooth crowns and possibly no occlusal wear. (sciencedaily.com)
The stress in the teeth with advanced wear shows a far better distribution of the loads over the whole tooth crown, so that the tensile stresses will be remarkably reduced. (sciencedaily.com)
«In our industrialised societies we find an increase in dental cervical defects», explains Ottmar Kullmer of the Senckenberg Research Institute: «Based on the results of our simulations of chewing loads, we assume that much of the enamel failure we find today frequently in tooth crowns is probably caused by cyclic tensile stresses during chewing.» (sciencedaily.com)