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Dentistry Tooth Development And Eruption

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1. What is the structure responsible for root development?






2. What are the clinical ramifications of fusion?






3. What are the etiological factors for supernumerary teeth?






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






5. How is the reduced enamel epithelium created?






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






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






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






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






10. What is macrodontia?






11. What happens during the bud stage?






12. What are the clinical ramifications of anodontia?






13. What is the embryological background for enamel?






14. What is the cap in the cap stage?






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






16. What happens during the maturation stage?






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






18. What are the mature cells for dentin?






19. What happens during the cap stage?






20. Tooth development






21. Where is the enamal organ originally derived from?






22. What are the etiological factors for dens in dente and gemination?






23. The stratum intermediate is located inner or outer?






24. What are the mature cells for cementum?






25. What are the mature cells for enamel?






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






27. What happens during the apposition stage?






28. Active eruption






29. What are the clinical ramifications of concrescence?






30. What is gemination?






31. What does the cervical loop consist of?






32. What are the incremental lines for dentin?






33. When root formation is completed the portion of the basement membrane disintegrates its cells may become what?






34. What are the clinical ramifications?






35. The buds of the dental lamina - together with the surrounding ecto mesenchyme - will develop into what?






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






37. What is another name for the dental sac?






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






39. What are the formative cells for cementum?






40. What processes are involved with the apposition stage?






41. Where is the dental sac originally derived from?






42. What are the etiological factors for fusion?






43. Where does the primordium of the permanent dentition develop?






44. What hard tissue has vascularity?






45. What are the clinical ramifications of supernumerary teeth?






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






47. What are the processes involved in the cap stage?






48. What is the time span for initiation?






49. Which teeth are nonsuccedaneous?






50. What is the main process involved in initiation?