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Dentistry Tooth Development And Eruption

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1. What are the clinical ramifications of fusion?






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






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






4. What are the formative cells for enamel?






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






6. What are the etiological factors of concrescence?






7. What is the cementum matrix called?






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






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






10. What are the mature cells for cementum?






11. What are the clinical ramifications of enamel dysplasia?






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






13. What happens during the bell stage?






14. What stage does anodontia occur?






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






16. The remaining ectomesenchyme surrounding the outside of the enamel organ condenses into what?






17. What are the clinical ramifications of concrescence?






18. What stage does supernumerary teeth occur?






19. What is the time span for initiation?






20. What processes are involved with the apposition stage?






21. What is tubercle?






22. What type of tissue is enamel?






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






24. What are the etiological factors for enamel pearl?






25. What is cementogenisis?






26. The stratum intermediate is located inner or outer?






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






28. What are the incremental lines for enamel?






29. What are the odontoblastic processes is contained in what?






30. What is macrodontia?






31. What will the dental sac give rise to?






32. Where is the dental papilla originally derived from?






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






34. Tooth development






35. What are the mature cells for dentin?






36. The stage named for extensive proliferation of the dental lamina into oval masses penetrating into the ectomesenchyme?






37. What will the dental papilla eventually form?






38. What is gemination?






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






40. What are the etiological factors for anodontia?






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






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






43. What happens during the bud stage?






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






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






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






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






48. What stage does the dental tissues subsequently fully mineralize






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






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