Here is the analysis:
Comments Regarding my Tooth Force Analysis Work:
This work is a natural extension of my ongoing study of microfluidic phenomena.
Anyway, at one time I became interested in learning something about tooth brush bristle induced fluid shear and pressure forces exerted on teeth. To examine this, I made the simplest possible finite element analysis (FEA) model that I could think of.
My purpose was not to develop a model of high accuracy, but to merely get a feeling about how the forces might vary across different parts of a tooth when bristles are moving the adjacent fluid. The resultant model begins the telling of an interesting story.
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