How to Use dentin in a Sentence

dentin

noun
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  • His teeth are chewed down to nubs, the dentin and nerves exposed.
    — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The thinner the enamel, the more likely the yellowish dentin shows through.
    — Jill U. Adams, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
  • That allows bacteria and acids to dig into your dentin, the next, softer layer of your teeth.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 17 Oct. 2018
  • His team finely analyzes the layers of dentin in fossilized tusks.
    — Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2018
  • The study also required new methods to extract steroids from the tusk dentin with a mass spectrometer.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 May 2023
  • Arany has found that shining laser light directly on the remaining pulp can stimulate stem cells in the pulp to produce new dentin.
    — David Cox /, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Dentists try to avoid applying the concentrated product on or near the dentin.
    — Jill U. Adams, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
  • The erosion of enamel can also cause teeth to become more yellow over the long-term, as the yellow-colored dentin, the inner layer of tooth, is exposed.
    — Lisa Drayer, CNN, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Shark teeth have dentin, like human teeth, according to the Dental Center of Indiana.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Our teeth produce enough dentin on their own to repair small cracks and injuries, but when a larger cavity necessitates drilling, our teeth aren't up to the job.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Once the enamel is dissolved, the underlying portion of the tooth, the dentin, is softer and more easily destroyed by the acid, thus leading to wider and deeper expansion of the cavity.
    — Jeffrey Ebersole, The Conversation, 18 May 2021
  • The research shows the drugs can coax stem cells within the dental pulp — the soft material deep within teeth that’s filled with nerves and blood vessels — into regrowing enough bony tissue (dentin) to fill the cavity.
    — David Cox /, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Like human teeth, the dragonfish’s teeth have a dense inner dentin layer surrounded by an outer enamellike layer.
    — Helen Santoro, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
  • This cycle of violence was revealed by a second signal in Fred’s tusks, encoded in oxygen isotopes, which tracked the steady sawtooth tick of the seasons passing by and provided a kind of calendar kept in dentin.
    — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
  • Then, the researchers used a drill bit operated beneath a microscope to grind samples of dentin, the mineralized tissue inside teeth, since tusks are elongated incisors.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 May 2023
  • Relative dentin abrasivity, or RDA, is a guide to measuring abrasiveness in toothpaste.
    — Laura Daily, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2019
  • This may eventually compromise the underlying dentin, which is a tissue containing hollow canals called tubules.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 18 Apr. 2018
  • According to a case study from the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, a compound odontoma is considered a developmental anomaly where tumors made of formed of enamel and dentin are formed.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2019

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