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Dentistry Tooth Development And Eruption

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1. Where is the enamel matrix secreted from by the ameloblasts?

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2. What is the time span for initiation?






3. When does dens in dente occur?






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






5. What are the incremental lines for dentin?






6. What are the mature cells for dentin?






7. What is matrix?






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






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






10. What is the structure responsible for root development?






11. What is cementogenisis?






12. What are supernumerary teeth?






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






14. What is the primordium of the tooth?






15. What are the clinical ramifications of concrescence?






16. What happens during the appositional stage?






17. What are the formative cells for enamel?






18. What happens during initiation?






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






20. What is tubercle?






21. What is an enamel pearl?






22. What are the clinical ramifications of supernumerary teeth?






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






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






25. What will the inner cells of the dental lamina differentiates into?






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






27. What are the etiological factors of tubercle?






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






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






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






31. Where is the dental sac originally derived from?






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






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






34. What is concrescence?






35. What are the incremental lines for enamel?






36. What happens during the bell stage?






37. The stellate reticulum is located inner or outer?






38. What processes are involved with the apposition stage?






39. What is the main process involved in the bud stage?






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






41. What are the formative cells for dentin?






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






43. What will the dental sac give rise to?






44. When does macro/microdontia occur?






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






46. What are succedaneous teeth?






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






48. What are the etiological factors for enamel pearl?






49. What is the cementum matrix called?






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