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Dentistry Tooth Development And Eruption

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






2. What is the cap in the cap stage?






3. What are the etiological factors for enamel pearl?






4. What are succedaneous teeth?






5. What will the dental papilla eventually form?






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






7. What are the etiological factors of concrescence?






8. What does the cervical loop consist of?






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






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






11. What is the structure responsible for root development?






12. How is the dentinocemental junction formed?






13. What happens during the apposition stage?






14. What are the clinical ramifications of supernumerary teeth?






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






16. What type of tissue is enamel?






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






18. What is the embryological background for enamel?






19. Active eruption






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






21. What is concrescence?






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






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






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






25. What are the mature cells for alveolar bone?






26. Tooth development






27. What processes are involved in the bell stage?






28. What will the dental sac give rise to?






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






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






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






32. What stage does supernumerary teeth occur?






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






34. What happens during the cap stage?






35. What are the incremental lines for dentin?






36. What are supernumerary teeth?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. What happens during the maturation stage?






46. What are the mature cells for enamel?






47. What is the cementum matrix called?






48. What happens during the bud stage?






49. The stellate reticulum is located inner or outer?






50. What is the main process involved in initiation?