Interprismatic Substance in Tooth?

The enamel consists of the enamel prisms, more or less completely separated from one another by an interprismatic substance. The partially decalcified interprismatic substance is basophile, homogeneous, and transparent.

What is the Interprismatic substance?

: situated or occurring between prisms especially of enamel an interprismatic substance.

Can tooth enamel flake off?

Even though enamel is the hardest substance in the human body, it can still become worn and chipped away, a process called enamel erosion. Unlike a broken bone that can heal itself, enamel has no living cells, meaning once the damage is done, it's permanent.

Alexander Ross

Alexander Ross

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