Under the microscope one can often see that enamel prisms deviate slightly from their straight course as they pass through the neonatal line. The adjacent enamel also shows a change in ...

Though the bodies were highly decomposed, one had a “neonatal line” on its teeth -- a discoloration in enamel that only develops after birth, a forensic anthropologist testified. And Halpern ...

A tooth’s crown is made of enamel. In the enamel of milk teeth, there is a faint mark called the neonatal line below which there is enamel produced before the baby was born and above which lies ...

The results of the experiment show an increase in the amount of zinc and a decrease in calcium, a main element of dental enamel, coinciding with the presence of the neonatal line, which helped ...

They studied a specific kind of growth line called a neonatal line ... called cortisol may interfere with cells that produce enamel, which in turn affect the development of growth lines.

Dr. Pokines testified that a neonatal line, once called a “birth line,” is a line that forms on infant’s teeth as a result of a disruption in how the enamel develops. He told the court that ...

Experiences such as physical stress, nutrition, and disease can affect how dental enamel is formed ... that increased width of one growth line, called the neonatal line (NNL), seemed to indicate ...