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Gabriel-Philippe de la Hire and the discovery of Hunter-Schreger bands

Overview of attention for article published in British Dental Journal, November 2010
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Title
Gabriel-Philippe de la Hire and the discovery of Hunter-Schreger bands
Published in
British Dental Journal, November 2010
DOI 10.1038/sj.bdj.2010.980
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Authors

C. D. Lynch, C. T. McGillycuddy, V. R. O'Sullivan, A. J. Sloan

Abstract

Hunter-Schreger bands are an optical phenomenon observed in mammalian tooth enamel. Familiar to all current and former students of dental histology, this optical phenomenon appears as alternating patterns of dark and light bands when cut enamel is viewed under reflected light. The discovery of this important feature of mammalian enamel has been historically credited to two eighteenth-century investigators, Hunter and Schreger. A re-evaluation of the evidence would suggest that the bands were observed almost seventy years earlier by a French scientist, Gabriel-Philippe de la Hire, and subsequently confirmed by the famous French dentist Pierre Fauchard. This article reviews the contribution of de la Hire, as well as that of Fauchard, Hunter and Schreger, to the early recognition among the scientific community of what would now be referred to as 'enamel microstructure'.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Poland 1 6%
Unknown 15 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 25%
Other 2 13%
Unspecified 2 13%
Professor 2 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 6%
Other 3 19%
Unknown 2 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 44%
Unspecified 2 13%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 6%
Unknown 4 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 October 2021.
All research outputs
#6,181,999
of 24,788,795 outputs
Outputs from British Dental Journal
#1,625
of 6,309 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#30,005
of 105,715 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Dental Journal
#7
of 36 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,788,795 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 6,309 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% of its peers.
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