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Dentistry Tooth Development And Eruption

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1. What type of tissue is enamel?






2. What happens during the maturation stage?






3. What are the clinical ramifications of concrescence?






4. What are the major components of the tooth germ?






5. The stellate reticulum is located inner or outer?






6. What will the inner cells of the dental lamina differentiates into?






7. What are the formative cells for alveolar bone?






8. After the enamel apposition ceases the crown area of each primary or permanent tooth what happens?






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






10. How is the dentinocemental junction formed?






11. What is another name for the dental sac?






12. What does the cervical loop consist of?






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






14. What is the structure responsible for root development?






15. What are succedaneous teeth?






16. What happens during initiation?






17. Tooth development






18. Passive eruption






19. What are the etiological factors for supernumerary teeth?






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






21. What hard tissue is innervated by nerves?






22. What are the formative cells for cementum?






23. What cell bodies are involved in the eruption and mineralization process but will be lost after eruption?






24. What is the predominate process in the bell stage?






25. What is dens in dente?






26. What is the function of the Hertwig's epithelial root sheath?






27. What are the clinical ramifications of dens in dente?






28. What processes are involved with the apposition stage?






29. The oral epithelium is induced by the ectomesenchyme to produce what?






30. What do the odontoblasts do?






31. When the inner epithelial epithelium columnar cells elongate and repolarize they differentiate into what?






32. What are the etiological factors for micro/macrodontia?






33. What is the cap in the cap stage?






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






35. When does the tooth bud become a tooth germ?






36. What is microdontia?






37. Where is the enamal organ originally derived from?






38. What stage does the dental tissues subsequently fully mineralize






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






40. What is concrescence?






41. What type of tissue is dentin - cementum - and alveolar bone?






42. What are entrapped cementoblasts called?






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






44. What is the primordium of the tooth?






45. What happens when the reduced enamel epithelium is created?






46. What is macrodontia?






47. What hard tissue is can not have tissue formation after eruption?






48. What will the dental sac give rise to?






49. What are the etiological factors for enamel pearl?






50. What are the clinical ramifications?