title: Centenary year of scientific papers in the British Dental Journal.
abstract: This penultimate part of the centenary series looks at E Matthews' paper on "The alginates in dentistry' and is reviewed by Mike Braden. In the paper, Matthews discussed the need to find a suitable alternative to certain dental materials such as agar agar when the main supplier of this, Japan, entered the Second World War.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Braden
mesh_terms: D000464:Alginates / Q000266:history*; D003760:Dental Impression Materials / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007598:Journalism, Dental / Q000266:history*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history; D006113:United Kingdom
chemical_list: D000464:Alginates; D003760:Dental Impression Materials