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Dentistry Tooth Development And Eruption

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1. Active eruption






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






3. Where is the dental sac originally derived from?






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






5. What do the odontoblasts do?






6. What are the formative cells for cementum?






7. What is gemination?






8. What processes are involved with the apposition stage?






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






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






11. What is the main process involved in initiation?






12. What is matrix?






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






14. What are supernumerary teeth?






15. What conveys communications between the cells of the enamel organ - the dental papilla - and the dental sac allowing tissue interactions?






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






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






18. What are the incremental lines for enamel?






19. When does macro/microdontia occur?






20. The stellate reticulum is located inner or outer?






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






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






23. What are the clinical ramifications of enamel dysplasia?






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






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






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






27. What are the clinical ramifications of concrescence?






28. What are the formative cells for dentin?






29. What is the cap in the cap stage?






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






31. What are the clinical ramifications of anodontia?






32. What wll the inner enamel epithelium differentiate into?






33. What is microdontia?






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






35. What are the etiological factors for anodontia?






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






37. What are the clinical ramifications of gemination?

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38. The stratum intermediate is located inner or outer?






39. What happens during the cap stage?






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






41. What is macrodontia?






42. What are the etiological factors for supernumerary teeth?






43. Where is the enamal organ originally derived from?






44. When does dens in dente occur?






45. Tooth development






46. What happens during the apposition stage?






47. What are the mature cells for dentin?






48. What causes the induction of the preameloblasts to differentiate into ameloblasts?






49. What is the structure responsible for root development?






50. What stage does supernumerary teeth occur?