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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Jan 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Dent Res. 2005 Nov;84(11):1075–1078. doi: 10.1177/154405910508401121

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Schematic illustrating how caries lesions were excavated to the level of caries-affected dentin, how vertical serial sections were made, how all but the test dentin was ground away in two different directions on adjacent slabs to permit tensile testing parallel (↕) or (↔) perpendicular to tubule long axis.