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






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






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






5. Where is the dental papilla originally derived from?






6. Passive eruption






7. What is amelogenisis?






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






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






10. What is dens in dente?






11. What cell bodies are involved in the eruption and mineralization process but will be lost after eruption?






12. What are the formative cells for cementum?






13. What will the outer cells of the dental lamina differentiate into?






14. What are succedaneous teeth?






15. What stage does the dental tissues subsequently fully mineralize






16. What is the primordium of the tooth?






17. What are supernumerary teeth?






18. What stage does anodontia occur?






19. What are the mature cells for cementum?






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






21. What is matrix?






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






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






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






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






26. What are the etiological factors for supernumerary teeth?






27. What are the formative cells for dentin?






28. What hard tissue has vascularity?






29. What is the embryological background for dentin - cementum and alveolar bone?






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






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






32. What happens during the appositional stage?






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






34. What are the incremental lines for dentin?






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






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






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






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






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






40. What is macrodontia?






41. What are entrapped cementoblasts called?






42. What is gemination?






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






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






45. Where is the dental sac originally derived from?






46. What is the time span for initiation?






47. What are the clinical ramifications of anodontia?






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






49. The stratum intermediate is located inner or outer?






50. When root formation is completed the portion of the basement membrane disintegrates its cells may become what?