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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 16.
Published in final edited form as: Dent Mater. 2019 Jun 14;35(9):1300–1307. doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2019.05.025

Table 1:

Mineral content (mass concentration) of fluoride, phosphate, and calcium in treated (test; at BIMIN/hard tissue junction x0) and untreated (control; at surface of hard tissue) samples measured using SEM/EDX.

Mass concentration [%]
Enamel Dentin

Test Control Test Control

Fluoride 2.2 ± 0.9 1.6 ± 1.0 6.2 ± 2.1* 3.1 ± 1.2
Phosphate 15.6 ± 0.4 15.3 ± 0.7 13.7 ± 0.3 13.5 ± 0.6
Calcium 39.9 ± 3.4 38.2 ± 1.4 33.0 ± 1.7 32.4 ± 0.6
*

p < 0.001 statistically significant different between test and controls