Alveolar ridge resorption after tooth extraction: A consequence of a fundamental principle of bone physiology
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Figure 1.
(a) Tensile/compressive stresses and shear stresses on the surfaces of an infinitesimal cubic element, (b) principal stresses
and (c) principal strains.