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. 2017 May 9;8:273. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00273

Table 1.

Material properties of the rodent's mandible.

E [GPa] Poisson ratio
Cortical bone (Williams and Edmundson, 1984) 19.92 0.3
Alveolar Bone (Yu et al., 2010) 0.345 0.38
Enamel (Yu et al., 2010) 84.1 0.33
Dentin (Yu et al., 2010) 18.6 0.31
Pulp (Yu et al., 2010) 0.002 0.45
Mesenchyme (Rees and Jacobsen, 1997; Trickey et al., 2006) 0.1 0.37
Periodontal ligament (Rees, 2001) 0.05 0.45