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Dentistry Tooth Development And Eruption

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






2. The stratum intermediate is located inner or outer?






3. What is the time span for the bell stage?






4. What will the dental papilla eventually form?






5. What are the clinical ramifications?






6. What happens during the bud stage?






7. The stellate reticulum is located inner or outer?






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






9. What is the main process involved in initiation?






10. What stage does supernumerary teeth occur?






11. What processes are involved in the bell stage?






12. What is anodontia?






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






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






15. What is the primordium of the tooth?






16. Where is the dental papilla originally derived from?






17. How is the dentinocemental junction formed?






18. When does macro/microdontia occur?






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






20. What are the etiological factors for fusion?






21. What are the mature cells for dentin?






22. What is matrix?






23. What are the resorptive cells for enamel - dentin - cementum and alveolar bone?






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






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






26. Where is the dental sac originally derived from?






27. What do the odontoblasts do?






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






29. What stage does anodontia occur?






30. What is the structure responsible for root development?






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






32. What processes are involved with the apposition stage?






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






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






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






36. What are the clinical ramifications of micro/macrodontia?






37. What are the formative cells for alveolar bone?






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






39. What is the time span for the cap stage?






40. What is another name for the dental sac?






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






42. What happens during the bell stage?






43. What happens during the apposition stage?






44. What is cementogenisis?






45. What are the formative cells for enamel?






46. What is gemination?






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






48. What are the formative cells for dentin?






49. What are the incremental lines for cementum and alveolar bone?






50. What are the incremental lines for dentin?