Exam 1 Flashcards
No ameloblasts = no ______
enamel
There are X # of crystals per ameloblast
one
Since ameloblasts are lost after eruption enamel … 1) 2)
1) has to be the hardest tissue
2) can not regenerate
What %organic and %inorganic component is enamel
organic= 4% Inorganic= 96% (mineral)
enamel can not be regenerated but it can be ___ (to a certain extent
remineralized
Between dentin and enamel, which material can be repaired?
Dentin. Enamel can NOT be repaired.
What are the inorganic components that make up enamel?
- crystalline calcium phosphate (hydroxyapatite) subsatued with carbonate
- ions such as strontium, Mg, Pb, fluoride
What structure helps maintain hard brittle enamel?
a resilient underlying dentin
What will likely happen to enamel if underlying dentin is lost?
Will easily fracture, its hard but very brittle
What color is enamel
translucent, light yellow to gray-white
What are the various thickness of enamel?
max 2.5mm(working surfaces) to a thin featheredge on cervicle line
how does enamel differ from other hard tissues? 8 things
1) there is no pre-enamel (unlike dentin, bone, cementum)
2) crystals grow against the secretory surface of ameloblasts
3) enamel proteins do not play any major structuring function
4) enamel is already 30% mineralized when its being layed down
5) elasticity
6) color
7) no matrix vessicles
8) enamel lacks mineral modulating molecules (promoters and inhibitors)
What are the fundamental similarities between enamel and other hard tissues?
1) composed of hydroxyapatite crystals
crystalline calcium phosphate substituted with carbonic ions
Enamel crystals are organized into 2 units called ____.
Rods and interrods
Crystals are ____ shape in cross-section and run in a _____ direction along rods.
1) hexagonal
2) longitudinally
In regards to rod organization, name 2 characteristics regarding geometry and shape.
1) not a regular geometry
2) cylindrical
How does interrod enamel compare to rod?
Interrods have the same crystal morphology, but a different orientation.
What is found in the interface between rod and interrod enamel?
an organic sheath
Rods and interrods are closely packed and long ribbon-like carbanoatoaptite crystals measuring what width and thickness?
width: 60-70nm
thickness: 25-30nm
How does the structure of enamel change as it matures?
1) crystals become thicker
2) crystals have a different orientation
3) become more hexagonal
4) linear pattern can be seen in older crystals due to reflection of crystalline lattice (artifact)
What is the zone of confluence?
areas that crystals from interrod enamel enters the rod.
young enamel is a _____ texture compared to mature enamel
younger enamel is a uniform texture, has no rod sheaths
What are two steps that occur during mineralization?
1) crystals grow wider and thicker
2) phenotypic changes occur in ameloblasts
What are the phenotypic changes of ameloblasts
1) presecretory ( morphogenetic & histodifferentiation)
2) secretory
3) maturation
When does amelogenesis begin?
After a few microm of dentin is deposited at the DEJ
What happens during the presecretory stage of amelogenesis?
Cells differentiate, acquire phenotype, change polarity, develop and extensive protein synth machinery, prepare to secrete an organic matrix of enamel.
1) morphogenetic stage
2) histodifferentiation
What happens in the morphogenetic stage of amelogenesis?
the shape of the crown is determined
What happens during the histodifferentiation stage of amelogenesis?
cells of the inner dental epithelium are differentiating into ameloblasts
The presecretory stage starts from what are of the developing tooth?
starts from the cusp tip outlines
Describe the secretory stage of amelogenesis.
Ameloblasts elaborate and organize entire enamel thichkness.
Tomes processes develop at apical end of ameloblasts.
Amelogenin accumulates.
What is Tomes processes?
Short conical processes that develop at the apical end of the ameloblast.
What is the main protein that accumulates during amelogenesis? And at what stage?
Amelogenin, secretory stage
Name two main things that happen during the Maturation stage of amelogenesis.
1) transportation of ions
2) mineralization
How do ameloblasts contribute to maturation?
1) modulate and transport ions
2) become more active in absorption of water and organic matrix-contributes to mineralization phase
3) secrete an organic cuticle on the surface of enamel= primary cuticle
What is a primary or developmental cuticle
an organic cuticle on the surface of enamel formed by ameloblasts after they have completed their contributions to the mineralization phase.
The protection phase of amelogenesis is characterized by…
1) ameloblasts are shorter
2) ameloblasts contact the stratum intermedium and outer dental epithelium
3) The above fuse to form the reduced dental epithelium
4) when tooth erupts the reduced enamel epithelium is destroyed, but the cervical parts become the junctional epithelium
How is junctional epithelium formed and where?
As the tooth erupts the incisal part of the reduced dental epithelium is destroyed, but the epithelium present cervically interacts with oral epithelium to become junctional epithelium.
Ameloblasts can be described as what type of cell?
Tall columnar
What happens to ameloblast’s nuclei?
Reverse polarization
The initial layer of enamel is ____.
Rodless, but composed of interrods that extend to make a honeycomb like structure. End layer of enamel is also rodless.
Which way do ameloblasts move in reference to the dental papilla?
Ameloblasts move away from dental papilla, causing a change in vascular supply.
What happens after full thickness formation?
1) maturation of enamel starts
2) ameloblasts shorten
3) loss of distinct layers of dental organ
4) blood vessels invaginate but dont violate papillary layer
What happens when enamel is fully mature?
ameloblastic and papillary layers become reduced enamel epithelium
What does the reduced enamel epithelium do?
1) protects enamel from follicular cells
2) helps form the junctional epithelium
Describe the life cycle of ameloblasts in 7 steps.
1) morphogenic
2) histodifferentiation
3) initial secretory stage (no tomes’ processes)
4) secretory stage (tomes’ processes)
5) ruffle-ended ameloblast of the maturative stage
6) smooth-ended ameloblast of maturative stage
7) protective stage
What is modulation?
Going back and forth between the ruffle-ended emeloblast to the smooth ended ameloblast. Occurs during maturative phase.
Describe presecretory morphogenietic stage ameloblast cells.
1) cuboidal to lowpcolumnar
2) centrally placed nuclei
3) poorly defined golgi
4) cells can still divide
Describe what happens to ameloblas (cellularly) during presecretory histodifferentiation step. 8 things
1) elongation of cells
2) reverse polarization
3) breakup of the basal lamina
4) golgi apparatus moves distally
5) RER
6) development of tomes processes (proximal)
7) Cell division seizes!!
8) junctional complexes and terminal webs
What happens in the secretory stage of amelogenesis? 5 things
1) constitutive secretion (continuous, no storage of secretory granules)
2) proteins are released against the mantle dentin
3) mineralization starts concomitantly
4) tomes distal processes develop
5) formation of pit, interrod, and rod enamel
What happens to tomes processes during the secretory stage of amelogenesis?
they become longer and thinner, move distally (called Tomes distal processes)
What proteins are released against mantle dentin during secretory stage?
1) amelogenin (90%)
2) ameloblastin
3) enamelin
What happens to the basal lamina separating ameloblasts from predentin?
1) differentiating ameloblasts send cytoplasmic projections into it
2) basal lamina is fragmented and removed before active deposition of enamel matrix
Where do secretory granules of ameloblasts go?
- translocated into tome’s processes
- accumulate by secretory surfaces
- recognized by infoldings of membrane
What are the two parts of Tomes process?
1) proximal tomes process (ppTP)- extends from the junctional complex to the surface of the enamel layer
2) Distal tomes process (dpTP) penetrates into enamel.
Which of tome’s process is first present?
the proximal part of tomes process
the interrod growth site is associated with witch tome’s process?
the proximal portion of Tome’s crocess
Rod growth cites are associated with which part of Tome’s process?
the distal portion of tomes process
Where are secretory granules released?
the infoldings of tome’s processes
how long does maturation of newly formed enamel take?
4 years
what happens (ultrastructural) in maturation of amelogeneisis?
1) crystals mature, enlarge, harden
2) matrix proteins and fluid are replaced
3) apoptosis of ameloblasts start (enamel knot at cusp tip)
4) modulation
5) secretion of basal lamina material that adheres/protects enamel (hemidesmosomes)
What is the significance of modulation?
Maintaining an enviornment that allows for accretion of mineral content, and loss of organic matrix. Ph alters which facilitates the process.
What do ruffle-ended ameloblasts produce and why?
Produce bicarbonate ions to 1) protect enamel from decalcification
2) maintenance of pH for matrix degrading enzymes
3) pumping of calcium into enamel
What do smooth-ended ameloblasts do?
leak small proteins and water out of enamel.
Which form of ameloblast exists at low pH?
ruffled-ended ameloblasts @ ph 5.5
smooth-ended ameloblasts @ 7
What form (ruffled or smooth) do ameloblasts spend most of their lives in?
ruffled
what do ameloblasts secrete as they enter modulation stage?
basal lamina (nueva)
What do ameloblasts form in basal lamina nueva?
hemidesmosomes, laminin-5, amelotin, NO type IV collagen.
What are some characteristics of amelogenin proteins?
1) have several isoforms
2) present in both x & y chromosomes
3) undergo major and minor extracellular processing
4) epithelial mesenchymal events
What is the function of amelogenins?
controls growth in thickness and with of crystals by forming nanospheres.
What happens in loss of function of amelogenins?
enamel defects that affect overall thickness and enamel rod strucure
Name the disorder in which a patient does not form enamel rods and what protein is involved?
Hypoplastic amelogenesis imperfecta, amelogenins
What is the function of ameloblastin protein?
in newly formd enamel it helps stabilize the DEJ by adhering (secretory stage)
What results in loss of function of ameloblastin?
terminal differentiating ameloblasts detach from dentin and enamel formation is aborted
What is the function of the enamelin protein?
promotes crystal elongation
What is the result of loss of function of enamelin?
no defined enamel layer
What are three things amelotin protein is involved in?
1) modulating emeloblasts
2) basal lamina
3) junctional epithelium
2 things apin is associated with are…
1) modulating ameloblasts
2) calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor
Name two proteinases of anamelogenesis.
1) enamelysin
2) kallikrein-4
What does enamelysin do?
cleaves ameloblstin and enamelin in the secretory stage- short term processing of enamel proteins
3 things about Kallikrein-4
1) serine proteinase
2) during modulation
3) loss of function = enamel hypomutation
loss of function of enamelysin =
formation of a thin hypomutated enamel layer….related to amelogenesis imperfecta hypomaturation type
When is kallikrein4 secreted and where?
secreted into full thickness enamel when ameloblasts loose their tomes processes and start their modulation cycle.
What is the function of kallikrein4?
slowly degrades residual amelogenins and framents from nonamelogenins
loss of function of kallikrein4 results in ___
hypomature enamel
Calcification mechanism: deposition of calcium salts on ____.
collagen fibrils
calcification is induced by.. 1__ 2___
1) high affinigy calcium binding proteins
2) proteoglycans
calcification is aided by ___
alkaline phosphatase
name 2 ways calcium moves from the blood?
through intercellular and transcellular routes
where do calcium crystallites form?
against mantle dentin
dentin may provide ___ for enamel crystallites.
nucleation (helps start crystal formation)
surface enamel is ____
most highly mineralized
what does the degree of mineralization do as it moves towrds the DEJ?
degree of mineralization decreases
mineralization _______ at the innermost layers
increases
what type of arrangement do rods have around the long axis?
circumferential
rods do not have a straight course except for where?
in the cervical, inner 2/3s adjacent groups intertwine
rods are oriented _____ to dentin surface
perpendicular with a slight inclnation toward cusp
what unique rod orientation is seen near the cusp tip?
gnarled enamel… vertical and twisted rods
rods are ____ at the cervix.
parallel
where do rods deviate in arrangement?
the CEJ
what are striae of retzius?
- ground sections of calcified teeth
- incremental lines or weekly rhythm of enamel production
what is a neonatal line?
an enlarged striae of retzius
accented striae of rezius could be cause by ___.
systemic disturbances.
what are perikymata and where are they found?
- endpoints of striae of retzius found on surace of enamel
- appear as shallow furrows, circumferentially horizontal lines
what are cross striations?
-changes in the organization of crystals
_structural interrelations of interrods and rods
describe bands of hunter-schreger
- an optical phenomenon when rods change direction
- seen in grounds sections, inner 2/3
- appears as light and dark zones
What are enamel tufts and where do they form?
greater concentrations of enamel protein that appear from the DEJ into the enamel a short distance.
-developmental
_branched
_no clinical significance
What are lamellae and where do they form?
- defects filled with organic material (trapped enamel organ or CT)
- form from surface to varying distances within enamel
- different from cracks
what are enamel spindles?
entrapped cytoplasmic processes of odontoblasts
-make a scalloped pattern
Name some changes enamel goes through with age.
1) lack of regeneration
2) enviornmental structural changes ex attrition, bruxism, abrasion
3) discoloration extrinsic and intrinsic
4) decreased permeability
5) progressive increase in Fl content
3 patterns of acid etching (dependent on crystal orientation)
Type 1- loss of rods
Type 2- loss of interrod enamel
Type 3- haphazard
acid etching can be done in which procedures?
fissure sealants, bonding, cementing, removal of plaque and increase of enamel porosity
Name an ex. of hereditary enamel defects
amelogenesis imperfecta
name 2 examples of developmental enamel defects.
1) hypoplasia caused by accidens, febrile disease, flurosis
- tetracycline staining
What does fluroide to to crystals?
makes them more resistant to acid dissolution by precipitating calcium phosphate
Name the process of tooth development
1) bud stage
2) cap stage
3) bell stage
4) Dentinogenesis
5) amelogenesis
6) crown formation
7) root formation and eruption
8) function
When does tooth development begin?
37 days of development
What is the primary epithelial band?
a continuous horseshoe-band of thickened epithelium in the location of upper and lower jaws, signifies the initiation of tooth development, forms the Buccal and Li vestibules
When/where does dental lamina appear?
Dental lamina appears as a thickening of the oral epithelium adjacent to condensation of ectomesenchyme. It begins to function in the 6th week of prenatal dev- contues to 15th yr after birth (3rd molars)
what is sucessional lamina?
lamina from which permanent teeth develop
Tooth development can be divided into 3 major stages…
1) bud stage
2) cap stage
3) bell stage
Describe bud stage.
characterized by rounded, localized growth of epithelium surrounded by proliferating mesenchymal cells, wich are packed closely beneath and around epithelial buds.
Describe the enamel organ in bud stage.
in bud stage the enamel organ consists of peripherally located low columnar cells and centrally located polygonal cells.
Describe cap stage.
- Condensation of the ectomesenchyme next to the tooth bud (caused by a lack of extracelluar matrix secretion by the cells, prevents separation)
- histodifferentiation begins at the end of cap stage
- epithelial outgrowth called enamel organ (will form enamel)
- dental papilla
Describe dental papilla in the cap stage.
ball of condensed ectomenenchymal cells
-will form dentin and pulp
Which cells differentiate into odontoblasts?
peripheral cells adjacent to the inner dental epithelium enlarge and differentiate into odontoblasts
What is the dental follicle or sac?
the condensed ectomesencymal tissue surroundign the enamel organ and dental papilla. It gives rise to cementum and the PDL.
Where do the PDL and cementum come from?
the dental follicle or sac
Describe lateral lamina.
An extension from the dental lamina that is connected to the enamel organ.
Describe an enamel niche.
An artifact produced during sectioning of the the tissue. Occurs because the enamel organ is in sheets rather than strands.
When are the inner and outer dental epithelium organized
cap stage
Describe an enamel knot.
A densely packed, nondividing accumulation of cells projecting from the inner enamel epithelium into the enamel organ. Exact role not known, maybe cusp develoment.
What is a dental organ or tooth germ?
A term used to constitute the structure that has enamel organ, dental papilla, dental follicle.
p21 gene expression is related to the appearance of what structure?
enamel knot precursor cells
Name two temporary structures that disappear before enamel formation begins.
Enamel knot and enamel cord