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Dentistry Tooth Development And Eruption

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1. What is the structure responsible for root development?






2. Where is the dental papilla originally derived from?






3. The stratum intermediate is located inner or outer?






4. Where is the enamal organ originally derived from?






5. What is the primordium of the tooth?






6. Which teeth are nonsuccedaneous?






7. What are the clinical ramifications of enamel dysplasia?






8. How is the dentinocemental junction formed?






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






10. What are the etiological factors for enamel pearl?






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






12. What is the main process involved in initiation?






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






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






15. What are the mature cells for enamel?






16. What will the dental papilla eventually form?






17. What is matrix?






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






19. What are succedaneous teeth?






20. What are the etiological factors of concrescence?






21. What happens to the thickened non tooth producing portions of the dental lamina eventually?






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






23. What kind of cells occur in the outer enamel epithelium in the bell stage?






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






25. What are the etiological factors for supernumerary teeth?






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






27. How is the reduced enamel epithelium created?






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






29. What are the etiological factors of enamel dysplasia?






30. What happens during the cap stage?






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






32. What are supernumerary teeth?






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






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






35. What is dens in dente?






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






37. What are the etiological factors for anodontia?






38. What are the etiological factors of tubercle?






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






40. What are the clinical ramifications of supernumerary teeth?






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






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






43. What processes are involved with the apposition stage?






44. What is microdontia?






45. What are the formative cells for dentin?






46. Tooth development






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






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






49. What stage does supernumerary teeth occur?






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