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Dental Gold Alloys and Gold Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

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Gold has been a dental restorative material for more than 4000 years; from early dental applications based on aesthetics, then gold wire to bind teeth used by early Phoenicians, and, finally, the Etruscans and the Romans, who introduced the art of making fixed bridges from gold strips.

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  1. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Rebeka Rudolf

  2. Faculty of Dentistry, School for Dental Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Vojkan Lazić

  3. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Peter Majerič

  4. Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation and Architecture, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Andrej Ivanič

  5. Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Gregor Kravanja

  6. Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Karlo T. Raić

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Rudolf, R., Lazić, V., Majerič, P., Ivanič, A., Kravanja, G., Raić, K.T. (2022). Dental Gold Alloys. In: Dental Gold Alloys and Gold Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications. SpringerBriefs in Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98746-6_2

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