Alveolar Bone Flashcards
Specialized mineralized CT. Composed of intercellular substance and osteocytes
Alveolar bone
67%
Inorganic; hydroxyapatite
33%
Organic
28%
Collagenous
5%
Non collagenous
Alveolar bone can best resist
- Compressive forces
2. Forces directed along long axis of the tooth
Alveolar bone can least resist
- Tensile strength
2. Shear stresses
Function of alveolar bone
- Support and protection
- Attachment of muscles
- Reservoir of minerals
- Hemopoiesis- formation of blood cells
- Portion of jaw bone that contains the teeth
Alveolar process
- Rest on basal bone
Alveolar process
- Proper development of alveolar process is dependent on tooth eruption and its maintenance of tooth retention(residual ridge- no teeth process)
Alveolar process
Composed of an outer and inner cortical plate of compact bone that enclose the spongiosa-
compartment of spongy bone also called as TRABECULAR or CANCELLOUS BONE
Alveolar process
- Lines the alveolus
- Thin plate of cortical bone with perforations (cribriform plate)
Alveolar bone proper
- Surrounds each tooth as continuous thin plate of compact bone
- Becomes fused with indistinguishable from the cortical plate of the Alveolar process in
some areas
Alveolar bone proper
- The coronal rim of the alveolar bone
- parallel to CEJ at a distance of 1-2mm apical to it
Alveolar crest
- corresponds to alveolar bone proper
- thin white line that is parallel to the outline of the roots of the teeth - radiographic representation of alveolar bone proper
Lamina dura
- Active mononucleated nucleus
- Function: formation of cells
- Derived from mesenchymal stem cells
Osteoblast
Osteoblast synthesize what
a. Type I and IV collagen
b. Cytokines and growth factors – BMP “bone morphogenic factor”
- Entrapped osteoblast in the lacunae
- Number varies depending on the capacity of bone formation - Active in bone remodeling
- Found within matrix of bone
- Surviving cells and functional
- Function: to prevent hyper mineralization of bone
Osteocytes
limited resorption in lacuna and canals
Osteolysis
secondary rebuilding of perilacunar bone mineral
** after bone formation: it loses its ability to form matrix and becomes smaller
** occupies osteocytic lacuna and 2 canaliculi- maintain contact with adjacent osteocytes
and osteoblast/ lining cells
** nutrition is not a problem
Osteoplasia
Big multinucleated cells found inside the howships lacuna
- Migration to PDL is not normal
Osteoclast
- Can be seen at the surface attached to bone
- where acid and proteolytic enzymes( acids destroy inorganic component) exit
- Organelle- poor brush-like cytoplastic border w/c demarcates the zone of resorption
Ruffled border
Sequence of resorption events
- Attachment of osteoclast to bone
- Create sealed environment
- Releases acids to demineralized the hard tissue
- Organic matrix is degradated by secretion of proteolytic enzymes
Dense outer sheet of bone with closely packed layers
Compact bone