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A new assessment in vitro of human salivary lubrication using a compliant substrate
R F Gans1, G E Watson, L A Tabak
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, NY 14642.
Archives of Oral Biology
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
The lubrication effect of salivary secretions was assessed in terms of separating a rigid object from a compliant substrate. There was little difference among the various secretions of a single donor. The viscosity of salivas increased as a function of time. Neither the friction testing nor viscometry provided an adequate model of the tissue-coating function ascribed to saliva.
