EXPERIMENTAL SINGLE CONTROLLED-STUDY OF BURNED BONES - CONTRIBUTION OF SCANNING ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY

Burned bones were studied using Scanning Electron Microscopy. The samp les were cut from a maxillary-mandibular block taken during an autopsy . These fragments were heated in a furnace under controlled temperatur e conditions for 60 minutes. The temperatures ranged from 150 to 1150 degrees Celsius. The results are as following: (i) there are significa nt alterations of the bone, more and more obvious as the temperature i ncreases, (ii) it appears to be difficult to establish a precise corre lation between the temperature and the scanning electron microscopy pa tterns.