Dental Development, Morphology, Eruption and Related Pathologies Flashcards
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Embryology: Neural crest cells
- Develop from ectoderm along lateral margins of neural plate
- Undergo extensive migration
- Responsible for many skeletal and connect tissues:
- Bone
- Cartilage
- Dentin
- Dermis
- NOT enamel
Embryology: Dental lamina
- Begins development @ 6 weeks of embryonic age.
- Dental lamina differentiates from expansion of basal layer of oral cavity epithelium.
- Tooth buds arise from dental lamina.
Name the components of tooth buds
- Enamel organ
- Dental papilla
- Dental sac
Name the morphologic stages of dental development
- Dental lamina
- Bud stage
- Cap stage
- Early bell stage
- Advanced bell stage
- Hertwig’s epithelial root sheath
- Formation of enamel and dentin matrices
Dental lamina
- Inductive phenomenon
- Initial formation of dental development
- Characterized by initiation
Bud stage
- Initial swellings from dental lamina.
- Formation of tooth buds.
- Characterized by proliferation and morphodifferentiation.
Cap Stage
- Expansion of tooth buds
- Formation of tooth germ
- Proliferation of tooth germ with cap-like appearance
- Inner (concavity) and outer (convexity) enamel epithelium
- Stellate reticulum (center of epithelial enamel organ): supports and protects ameloblasts
- Dental papilla (neural crest origin): Formative organ of dentin and primordium of pulp
- Dental sac: Gives rise to cementum and PDL
- Characterized by proliferation, histodifferentiation, and morphodifferentiation.
Early Bell Stage
- Invagination of epithelium deepens, margins continue to grow
- Stratum intermedium: Essential for enamel production
- Primordia of permanent teeth bud off primary dental lamina
- Basic form an relative size established by differential growth
- Characterized by proliferation, histodifferentiation, and morphodifferentiation
Advanced Bell Stage
- Differentiation of odontoblasts precedes that of ameloblasts
- Future DEJ outlined
- Basal margin of enamel organ gives rise to Hertwig’s epithelial root sheath
Hertwig’s Epithelial Root Sheath
- Composed of inner and outer enamel epithelia without stratum intermedium and stellate reticulum
- Root sheath loses continuity once first layer of dentin laid down
- Remnant persists as rests of Malassez
Formation of enamel and dentin matrices
- Characterized by apposition
- Regular and rhythmic deposition of matrix of hard dental structures
- Takes place in waves from DEJ outward, from incisal to cervical
- Takes place in two stages
- Both processes occur simultaneously
- Immediate partial mineralization as matrix segments are formed
- Maturation
- Gradual completion
- The term “maturation” is also used to describe post-eruption mineralization
Initiation: Morphologic stage counterparts, nature of anomaly, deficient developments, excessive development
- Morphologic stage counterparts: Dental lamina
- Nature of anomaly: Number
- Deficient developments: Anodontia, hypodontia, oligodontia
- Excessive development: Hyperdontia
Proliferation: Morphologic stage counterparts, nature of anomaly, deficient developments, excessive development
- Morphologic stage counterparts: Bud, cap, early and advanced bell
- Nature of anomaly: Number and structure
- Deficient developments: Hypodontia, oligodontia
- Excessive development: Hyperdontia, odontoma, epithelial rests
Histodifferentiation: Morphologic stage counterparts, nature of anomaly, deficient developments, excessive development
- Morphologic stage counterparts: Cap, early and advanced bell
- Nature of anomaly: Enamel and dentin structures
- Deficient developments:
- Amelogenesis imperfecta type I (hypoplastic) & IV (hypoplastic/hypomaturation)
- Dentinogenesis imperfecta
- Excessive development: Hyperdontia, odontoma, epithelial rests
Morphodifferentiation: Morphologic stage counterparts, nature of anomaly, deficient developments, excessive development
- Morphologic stage counterparts: Bud, cap, early and advanced bell
- Nature of anomaly: Size and shape
- Deficient developments:
- Microdontia
- Peg lateral
- Mulberry molars
- Hutchinson incisors
- Absence of cusp or root
- Excessive development:
- Macrodontia
- Tuberculated cusps
- Carabelli’s cusp
- Taurodontism
- Dens in dente
- Dens evaginarus
- Dilaceration
- Gemination
- Fusion
- Concresence
Apposition: Morphologic stage counterparts, nature of anomaly, deficient developments, excessive development
- Morphologic stage counterparts: Deposition of enamel and dentin matrices
- Nature of anomaly: Enamel, dentin and cementum apposition
- Deficient developments:
- Amelogenesis imperfecta type II (hypomaturation) and IV
- Enamel hypoplasia
- Dentin hypoplasia
- Regional odontodysplasia
- Excessive development:
- Enamel pearls
- Hypercementosis
- Odontoma
Mineralization: Morphologic stage counterparts, nature of anomaly, deficient developments, excessive development
- Morphologic stage counterparts: Mineralization of enamel and dentin matrices
- Nature of anomaly: Enamel and dentin mineralization
- Deficient developments:
- Amelogenesis imperfecta type III (hypocalcified)
- Enamel hypomineralization
- Fluorosis
- Interglobular dentin
- Excessive development: Sclerotic dentin
Maturation: Morphologic stage counterparts, nature of anomaly, deficient developments, excessive development
- Morphologic stage counterparts: Maturation of enamel and dentin matrices
- Nature of anomaly: Enamel and dentin maturation
- Deficient developments: Amelogenesis imperfecta type II & IV
- Excessive development: N/A
Eruption: Morphologic stage counterparts, nature of anomaly, deficient developments, excessive development
- Morphologic stage counterparts: Eruption of teeth
- Nature of anomaly: Eruption
- Deficient developments:
- Primary failure of eruption
- Ectopic eruption
- Ankylosis
- Impaction
- Transposition
- Delayed eruption
- Excessive development:
- Natal/neonatal teeth
- Accelerated eruption
Hyperdontia: Prevalence, Frequency, Location, Genetics, Classification of supernumerary teeth
initiation and Proliferation
- Prevalence:
- Primary dentition: 0.3-0.8%
- Permanent dentition: 0.1-3.8% in whites; higher in blacks and Asians
- Frequency:
- Males 2:1 females
- Permanent dentition 5x as common as primary dentition
- Location
- 95% in maxilla, especially in anterior region
- Mesiodens most common
- Genetics: Variable with familial tendency
- Classification of supernumerary teeth
- Supplemental: Normal morphology
- Rudimentary: Conical, tuberculate (barrel-shaped), molariform (differentiate from odontoma)
Conditions/Syndromes Associated with Hyperdontia
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Apert (acrocephalosyndactyly)
- Delayed or ectopic eruption
- Shovel-shaped incisors
-
Cleidocranial dysplasia
- Delayed development and eruption of permanent teeth
- Supernumerary teeth
- Delayed primary exfoliation
- Enamel hypoplasia
-
Gardner syndrome
- Delayed eruption
- Supernumerary teeth
- Osteomas of the jaw
- Crouzon syndrome (craniofacial dysostosis)
- Down syndrome
- Sturge-Weber syndrome
- Orofaciodigital syndrome I
- Cleft lip and palate
Anodontia, Hypodontia, and Oligodontia: Prevalence, Frequency, Location, Genetics, Etiology, Associations
Initiation and Proliferation
- Prevalence
- Primary dentition: Less than 1% (0.5-0.9%)
- Permanent dentition: 1.5-10% excluding 3rd molars
- Frequency
- Females 1.5:1 males
- Third molars (20%), mandibular 2nd premolar (3.4%), maxillary lateral (2.2%), maxillary 2nd premolar (~0.85%)
- Genetics
- Inheritance pattern may be autosomal dominant or polygenic multifactorial
- Familial patterns may play a role
- Mutations of PAX9, MSX1, AXIN2 genes may be identified
- Problems may arise from:
- Failure of induction
- Abnormality of lamina
- Insufficient space
- Physical obstruction of lamina
- Significant correlation between missing primary and missing permanent successor
- May be associated with microdontia: peg lateral incisors are part of spectrum of hypodontia
- Agenesis of third molars is associated with agenesis of one or both permanent maxillary lateral incisors
- In some patients with hypodontia, other ectodermal organs are also affected: salivary glands (hyposalivation), skin, sweat glands, but not always in association with ectodermal dysplasia
Conditions/Syndromes Associated with Anodontia, Hypodontia, and Oligodontia
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Ectodermal dysplasia
- Conical crowns
- Hypodontia to anodontia
- Deficient alveolar ridge
- Crouzon syndrome (craniofacial dysostosis); also hyperdontia
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Chondroectodermal dysplasia (Ellis-van Creveld)
- Premature teeth - 25%
- Absent maxillary sulcus
- Conical crowns
- Partial anodontia
- Enamel hypoplasia
-
Williams syndrome (elfin appearance)
- Partial anodontia
- Prominent lips
- Microdontia
- Enamel hypoplasia
- Non-syndromic cleft lip/palate
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Achondroplasia
- Midface hypoplasia
- Frontal bossing
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Incontinentia pigmenti
- Conical crowns
- Delayed eruption
- Premature teeth
- Cleft lip/palate
- Orofaciodigital syndrome I
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Rieger syndrome
- Midface hypoplasia
- Delayed eruption
- Hypodontia, usually upper incisors
Size Anomalies
- Types
- True generalized: Small/large teeth in normal jaws
- Relative generalized: Normal or slightly smaller/larger teeth in larger/smaller jaws
Proliferation and Morphodifferentiation
- Microdontia
- Prevalence: 0.8-8.4%
- Frequency: Maxillary lateral incisors, 2nd premolars, 3rd molars
- Genetics: Inheritance pattern autosomal dominant with incomplete penetrance
- Macrodontia
- Prevalence: Single tooth macrodontia is rare. Rule out fusion, germination.
- Frequency: Usually incisors and canines, often bilateral
Conditions/Syndromes Associated with Microdontia
- Ectodermal dysplasia
- Chondroectodermal dysplasia (Ellis-van Creveld)
- Hemifacial microsomia
- Down syndrome
- Crouzon syndrome
- Pituitary dwarfism
Conditions/Syndromes Associated with Macrodontia
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Hemifacial hyperplasia/hypertrophy
- Accelerated eruption on affected side
- Crouzon syndrome
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Otodental syndrome
- Macrodontia affects posterior teeth globodontia (primary second molars) molar fusion
- XYY syndrome
- Pituitary gigantism
- Pineal hyperplasia with hyperinsulinism
Conjoined Teeth Anomalies
Proliferation and Morphodifferentiation
- Gemination
- Fusion
- Concrescence
Gemination – Prevalence, characteristics, significance
Proliferation and Morphodifferentiation
- Enlarged or joined teeth in which tooth count normal when enlarged tooth is counted as one.
- Prevalence:
- Primary dentition: 0.5-2.5%
- Permanent dentition: 0.5%
- Characteristics: Abortive attempt by single tooth to divide; bifid crown with single root and pulp chamber
- Familial inheritance
- Significance
- Crowding may retard eruption of permanent successor
- Site of fusion may be at increased risk for caries
- Clinical diagnosis: Extra crown (assuming normal complement of other teeth)
- Prevalence:
Fusion – Prevalence, characteristics, significance
Proliferation and Morphodifferentiation
- Enlarged or joined tooth in which the tooth count is normal when enlarged tooth is counted as one.
- Prevalence: 0.5% and more common in primary dentition
- Characteristics:
- Dentinal union of two embryologically developing teeth with two separate pulp chambers
- Separate or fused canals may appear as large bifid crown with one chamber
- Dentin always confluent
- Clinical diagnosis: Missing a tooth (unless fusion occurs with supernumerary tooth)
Concrescence – Prevalence, characteristics, significance
Proliferation and Morphodifferentiation
- Technically not a developmental defect because it can occur after tooth formation is complete
- Prevalence: Most common in the maxillary posterior region
- Characteristics: Fusion that occurs after root formation is complete (why it is technically not a developmental defect)
- Etiology: Trauma, crowding that may occur pre- or post-eruption
Anomalies of Morphodifferentiation – Size and Shape
- Dens in dente
- Dens evaginatus
- Taurodontism
- Dilaceration
Dens in dente – Prevalence, characteristics, significance, treatment
Morphodifferentiation – Size and Shape
- Dens invaginatus; “tooth within a tooth”
- Prevalence: 0.3-10%; rare in African Americans
- Frequency: Maxillary lateral most affected; uncommon in primary teeth
- Characteristics
- Invagination of inner enamel epithelium
- In severe types – Hertwig’s epithelial root sheath folds into developing root
- Significance: Carious involvement via communication between oral environment and invaginated portion
- Treatment:
- Simple type: Sealant or composite restoration
- Deeper lesions require direct or indirect pulp capping, conventional RCT, MTA/RCT, combined RCT/surgical treatment
Dens evaginatus - Types, prevalence, frequency, characteristics, significance
Morphodifferentiation – Size and Shape
- Types
- Type I: Talon cusp
- Type II: Semi-talon
- Type III: Trace talon
- Prevalence: 1-8%
- Higher in some racial groups – Asian, Native American, Hispanic, Inuit
- Frequency
- Both sexes affected
- 77% are permanent teeth
- 88% are maxillary incisors
- 55% are lateral incisors
- May be unilateral or bilateral
- Characteristics: Evagination of enamel epithelium; focal hyperplasia of pulp mesenchyme
- Significance: Pulp tissue within extra cusp may develop pulp necrosis
Conditions/syndromes associated with dens evaginatus
- Lobodontia - “wolf-like teeth”, “fang-like cusps”
- Rubenstein-Taybi syndrome
Taurodontism - Types, prevalence, frequency, characteristics, significance
Morphodifferentiation – Size and Shape
- Types
- Hypotaurodontism
- Mesotaurodontism
- Hypertaurodontism
- Prevalence: 2.5-3.2% in US
- Higher in some racial groups and hypophosphatasia
- Frequency: Permanent molar is most affected
- Characteristics:
- Failure of normal invagination of Hertwig’s epithelial root sheath
- Elongation of crown at the expense of the roots
- Significance: Large pulps
Conditions/Syndromes Associated with Taurodontism
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Klinefelter syndrome
- Small cranial dimension
- Bimaxillary prognathism
- Taurodontism in 30%
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Tricho-dento-osseous syndrome (TDO)
- Dolichocephalic with frontal bossing
- Taurodont teeth have periapical radiopacities and high pulp horns with likely microexposures
- Delayed eruption
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Mohr syndrome (orofaciodigital syndrome II)
- Lobed tongue
- Upper lip midline cleft
- Oligodontia
- Hypohydrotic ectodermal dysplasia
- Amelogenesis imperfecta type IV
- Down syndrome
- Williams syndrome
- Smith-Magenis syndrome
Dilaceration - Etiology
Anomalies of Morphodifferentiation – Size and Shape
Etiology: Trauma to primary dentition, especially intrusion or idiopathic developmental disturbance.
Conditions/Syndromes Associated with Dilaceration
- Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Lamellar congenital ichthyosis
- Smith-Magenis syndrome
Anomalies of Histodifferentiation – Structure
- Amelogenesis imperfecta
- Dentinogenesis imperfecta
Amelogenesis imperfecta
- Heritable enamel defect with multiple inheritance patterns
- Incidence variably reported as 1:14,000, 1:8,000, 1:4,000 – first figure is generally accepted
- Clinically diverse with potential for overlaps of types
- 14 subgroups under 4 major types – based on clinical/histologic features and mode of inheritance
- Distinguished from other enamel defects: Confinement to distinct patterns of inheritance; occurrence apart from syndromic, metabolic, or systemic condition.
- AI Type I – Hypoplastic
- AI Type II – Hypomaturation
- AI Type III – Hypocalcified
- AI Type IV – Hypoplastic/Hypomaturation +/- Taurodontism
AI Type I – Hypoplastic – Characteristics, subgroups
- Insufficient quantity of enamel
- Lack of complete inner enamel epithelium
- Enamel matrix defect
- Both dentitions affected
- Most common subgroup (AD)
- Anterior open bite in 44%
- Long lower face
- Subgroups (Witkop)
- Pitted: AD
- Localized: AD
- Localized: AR
- Smooth: AD
- Smooth: X-linked recessive
- Rough: AD
- Enamel agenesis: AR
Dentinogenesis imperfecta
Anomalies of Histodifferentiation – Structure
- Heritable defect of predentin matrix
- Normal mantle dentin
- Amorphic and atubular circumpulpal dentin
- Incidence: 1:8,000
- 3 subtypes - (Shields I, II, and III)
Dentinogenesis imperfecta – Shields Type I: Severity, clinical characteristics
Histodifferentiation – Structure
- Least severe
- Occurs with osteogenesis imperfecta Types IB an IVB
- Autosomal dominant
- Defect of matrix common to teeth and bones
- Dentinal manifestation of underlying type 1 collagen defect
- Primary teeth more severely affected; permanent teeth most often affected are central incisors and 1st molars
- Occurs prior or soon after eruption
- Degree of expressivity is variable, even with same individual
- Clinical characteristics:
- Amber translucence
- Bulbous crowns
- Short roots
- Periapical radiolucencies
- Alveolar abscesses
- Rapid attrition
- Pulpal obliteration
Dentinogenesis imperfecta – Shields Type II: Characteristics
Histodifferentiation – Structure
- “Hereditary opalescent dentin”
- Occurs alone: no OI
- Autosomal dominant
- Both dentitions equally affected
- Same characteristics as DI-I
- Amber translucence
- Bulbous crowns
- Short roots
- Periapical radiolucencies
- Alveolar abscesses
- Rapid attrition
- Pulpal obliteration
- Irregular or tubular pattern
Dentinogenesis imperfecta – Shields Type III: Severity, clinical characteristics
- Most severe
- Rare: Brandywine tri-racial isolate population (Caucasian/African American/American Indian)
- Clinical characteristics:
- Bell-shaped crowns
- Opalescent hue
- Shell teeth (esp. primary dentition) with short roots and enlarged pulp chambers
- Only mantle dentin formed
- Rapid wear of primary and permanent crowns
- Permanent tooth pulps small or completely obliterated
- Multiple pulp exposures (esp. primary dentition)
- Regular tubules
- Enamel pitting
Conditions/Syndromes Associated with DI
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Osteogenesis Imperfecta
- Autosomal dominant
- 4 major types
- OI Type I: Most common
- OI Type II: Lethal in perinatal period
- Dentinogenesis imperfecta more common in Types III and IV
- Bowing of legs
- Fragile bones – fractures
- Blue sclera
- Bitemporal bossing
- Defective collagen > loose ligaments
- Impaired hearing
- Macrocephaly
- Some variants of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Goldblatt syndrome
- Schimke immune-osseous dysplasia
Anomalies of Apposition – Enamel Structure
- Enamel hypoplasia
- Enamel pearls
Enamel hypoplasia: Etiology, marker for what disease, predominant locations
Anomalies of Apposition – Enamel Structure
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Environmentally induced
- Physiologic: Developmental, ingestional (vitamin deficiency, A, C, D, calcium, phosphate, fluoride), erosion
- Infectious: Debilitating disease, apical infection of predecessor, chronic fungal infection, prenatal (syphilis, rubella, Rh incompatibility)
- Traumatic: Injury to predecessor, attrition, abrasion
- Iatrogenic: Tetracycline, fluoride, surgery, irradiation
- Genetic etiologies: Amelogenesis imperfecta
- Enamel hypoplasia is a potential marker for celiac disease
- Predominant locations: Maxillary/mandibular, primary/permanent central and lateral incisors
- Enamel hypoplasia is associated with epidermolysis bullosa, junctional form
Enamel pearls
Anomalies of Apposition – Enamel Structure
- Cells of epithelial root sheath may remain attached to dentin
- May differentiate into ameloblasts and produce enamel
- May contain dentin and pulp
Anomalies of Apposition – Dentin Structure
- Dentin dysplasia
- Regional odontodysplasia
Shields Type I Dentin Dysplasia: Clinical features, inheritance, primary defect
Anomalies of Apposition – Dentin Structure
- Radicular dentin dysplasia
- “Rootless teeth”
- Clinical features:
- Short, blunted roots or rootless in both dentitions
- Normal crown morphology
- Slightly translucent
- Obliterated pulp chambers
- Multiple periapical radiolucencies
- Root sheath problems
- Severe mobility and malalignment
- Autosomal dominant
- Primary defect is epithelial root sheath that invaginates too early/often
Shields Type II Dentin Dysplasia: Clinical features, inheritance
Anomalies of Apposition – Dentin Structure
- Coronal (and radicular) dentin dysplasia
- Very rare
- Primary teeth affected
- Amber color
- Looks like DI-II
- Coronal dentin is involved as well as root dentin
- Permanent teeth look normal, but radiographically demonstrate thistle-tube shaped pulps, multiple pulp stones
- Some cases, features characteristic of DI-II are seen (bulbous crowns, cervical constriction, mild discoloration, pulp obliteration
- Autosomal dominant
Regional Odontodysplasia
Anomalies of Apposition – Dentin Structure
- “Ghost teeth”
- Localized arrest in tooth development
- Variable presentation
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Affects primary and permanent teeth
- Usually maxilla
- 80% involve central incisors
- Single or several teeth may be involved with moderate to severe hypoplasia
- Atubular tracts, irregular tubules, interglobular mineralization, no odontoblastic layer
- Cementum can be normal or aberrant
- Thin enamel with diffuse shell appearance
- Large pulps
- Little dentin
- No established etiology or inheritance pattern
- Gingival hyperplasia
- Failure of teeth to erupt
- No established etiology or inheritance pattern but alteration in vascular supply is most popular theory
Anomalies of Apposition – Cementum Structure
- Hypophosphatasia
- Epidermolysis bullosa
- Cleidocranial dysplasia
Hypophosphatasia: Etiology, clinical presentation, inheritance
Anomalies of Apposition – Cementum Structure
- Lack of serum alkaline phosphatase
- Increased urinary phosphoethanolamine
- Autosomal dominant or recessive
- Lack of cementum on root surfaces
- Premature loss of primary teeth with little/no resorption
- Bone abnormalities that resemble rickets
- Large pulp chambers
Epidermolysis bullosa
Anomalies of Apposition – Cementum Structure
- Fibrous acellular cementum
- Excess cellular cementum
Cleidocranial dysplasia
Anomalies of Apposition – Cementum Structure
- Deficient cellular cementum
- May be related to lack of eruption