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Dentistry Tooth Development And Eruption

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1. What are the clinical ramifications of concrescence?






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






3. What layer serves as protection for the enamel organ?






4. What are the clinical ramifications of supernumerary teeth?






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






6. What are the etiological factors for anodontia?






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






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






9. What are the mature cells for cementum?






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






11. How is the reduced enamel epithelium created?






12. What is concrescence?






13. What are the formative cells for alveolar bone?






14. What are the clinical ramifications?






15. What are the incremental lines for enamel?






16. What is the important acelluar structure that seperates the oral epithelium and the ectomesenchyme?






17. What stage does anodontia occur?






18. What are the clinical ramifications of enamel pearl?






19. When does the process of root development take place?






20. What are the etiological factors for fusion?






21. What are the etiological factors of enamel dysplasia?






22. What is the cementum matrix called?






23. The stellate reticulum is located inner or outer?






24. What are the mature cells for alveolar bone?






25. What is microdontia?






26. What happens during the bell stage?






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






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






29. What are the cell layers found in the enamel organ in the bell stage?






30. What are the mature cells for enamel?






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






32. What hard tissue has vascularity?






33. What happens to the thickened non tooth producing portions of the dental lamina eventually?






34. What happens during the cap stage?






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






36. Active eruption






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






38. What is dens in dente?






39. What are the etiological factors for supernumerary teeth?






40. What is enamel dysplasia?






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






42. Where is the dental sac originally derived from?






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






44. What happens during initiation?






45. What is the inner mass in the cap stage that forms a concavity of the enamel organ?






46. What happens during the maturation stage?






47. What hard tissue is innervated by nerves?






48. What are the incremental lines for dentin?






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






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