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Dentistry Tooth Development And Eruption

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1. What is enamel dysplasia?






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






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






4. What are the formative cells for cementum?






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






6. What are the clinical ramifications of enamel dysplasia?






7. What is gemination?






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






9. What stage does the dental tissues subsequently fully mineralize






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






11. What is macrodontia?






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






13. What kind of cells occur in the inner enamel epithelium?






14. What happens during the cap stage?






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






16. What are succedaneous teeth?






17. What are the etiological factors for supernumerary teeth?






18. What is another name for the dental sac?






19. What are entrapped cementoblasts called?






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






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






22. What do the odontoblasts do?






23. What is anodontia?






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






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






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






27. What are the clinical ramifications?






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






29. What stage does supernumerary teeth occur?






30. What is amelogenisis?






31. What hard tissue is innervated by nerves?






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






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






34. What are the etiological factors of enamel dysplasia?






35. What are the formative cells for dentin?






36. The stellate reticulum is located inner or outer?






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






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






39. What are the etiological factors for fusion?






40. What is the structure responsible for root development?






41. When does the tooth bud become a tooth germ?






42. Active eruption






43. Which teeth are nonsuccedaneous?






44. What are the mature cells for cementum?






45. The stratum intermediate is located inner or outer?






46. What is the primordium of the tooth?






47. What does the cervical loop consist of?






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






49. What is the main process involved in initiation?






50. What are the mature cells for enamel?