Hydrostatic pressures were applied to human teeth to investigate the development across the dentin of electric potentials which might be involved in excitation of sensory receptors. Electric potentials were measured, and an attempt was made to explain the phenomenon on the basis of the Helmholtz-Smoluchowski equation.
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