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Dentistry Tooth Development And Eruption

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1. The stellate reticulum is located inner or outer?






2. How is the dentinocemental junction formed?






3. What are the etiological factors of tubercle?






4. What happens during the cap stage?






5. What is the embryological background for dentin - cementum and alveolar bone?






6. What are the etiological factors of enamel dysplasia?






7. What is the outer portion of the ectoderm in the initiation stage?






8. What kind of cells occur in the outer enamel epithelium in the bell stage?






9. What will the dental papilla eventually form?






10. What are entrapped cementoblasts called?






11. In the cap stage the tooth bud does not grow - what happens?






12. What are the incremental lines for enamel?






13. What is the site for the future dentioenamel junction?






14. What is the predominate process of the cap stage?






15. What happens during initiation?






16. What is matrix?






17. What is the cementum matrix called?






18. What wll the inner enamel epithelium differentiate into?






19. What else undergoes proliferation in the bud stage besides the dental lamina?






20. What kind of cells occur in the inner enamel epithelium?






21. What is the main process involved in initiation?






22. How many types of cells are found in the enamel organ in the bell stage?






23. What are the etiological factors for anodontia?






24. What are the mature cells for enamel?






25. Odontoblasts leave attached cellular extensions in the length of the predentin called what?






26. What kind of cells reside in the stratum intermediate?






27. What will the outer cells of the dental lamina differentiate into?






28. What is enamel dysplasia?






29. What processes are involved in the bell stage?






30. What are the 2 layers in the dental papilla within the concavity of the enamel organ?






31. When the undifferentiated cells of the dental sac come into contact with the root dentin they differentiate into what?






32. Where is the enamel matrix secreted from by the ameloblasts?


33. Do odontoblasts start their secretion of matrix before the ameloblasts?






34. What are the clinical ramifications of gemination?


35. What are the odontoblastic processes is contained in what?






36. What is the structure responsible for root development?






37. What are the etiological factors for enamel pearl?






38. What happens during the appositional stage?






39. What are the developmental disturbances of the cap stage?






40. What does the cervical loop consist of?






41. What is anodontia?






42. What are the development disturbances of the apposition and maturation stages?






43. Which layer in the bell stage has star shaped cells?






44. The preameloblasts induce dental papilla cells to differentiate into what?






45. What is another name for the dental sac?






46. What is the time span for the bud stage?






47. What is cementogenisis?






48. What is the process involved in the maturation stage?






49. What stage does supernumerary teeth occur?






50. How is the reduced enamel epithelium created?