Odontogenesis Flashcards
At what week does the stomodeum form? What is it derived from?
Begins at week six. Derived from ectoderm, lined with epithelium
What do dental placodes give rise to?
Tooth buds/enamel organs
What does the basement membrane separate? What does it give rise to?
Separates dental lamina and ectomesenchyme
Gives rise to the future Dentinoenamel Junction
What is embryonic connective tissue? What does it surround and give rise to?
Ectomesenchymal tissue
Surrounds the dental lamina in each arch and gives rise to Dental papilla (dentin/pulp) and the dental follicle (cementum/PDL/alveolar bone)
Where does the dental Papilla form?
Inside the enamel organ concavity
Where does the dental follicle form?
Around the enamel organ
When does tooth formation occur?
Weeks 6/7
What two types of tissue interact during the initiation stage of tooth formation?
Epithelial tissues and ectomesenchyme tissues
When does the bud stage take place? What is it surrounded by?
Week eight
Buds are surrounded by ectomesenchyme
When is the cap Stage? And what is formed during the cap stage?
Occurs weeks 9 to 10
Proliferation of epithelial cells form the tooth germ
What is the enamel organ? What are the two types of epithelium?
Ectodermal tissue that gives rise to tooth enamel
Outer enamel epithelium (OEE, convex) and inner enamel epithelium (IEE, concave)
What is the enamel knot? What is it composed of?
Mass of stellate reticulum cells
Signal center for cusp formation during the bell stage
Composed of an enamel cord and an enamel navel
What is the enamel cord?
String of cells running from enamel knot to the outer enamel epithelium at the enamel navel
What is the enamel navel?
Surface depression in outer enamel epithelium where the cord attaches
What is the cervical loop?
Inferior circumference of the junction of OEE and IEE and gives rise to the cervix of the tooth: future CEJ
What do the dental Papilla give rise to?
Dentin and Pulp
What does the dental follicle give rise to? What does it surround?
Gives rise to cementum, PDL and alveolar bone.
Membranous sac that forms around the enamel organ and dental Papilla
What does vestibular lamina form?
Forms the oral vestibule
When does the bell stage occur? What happens here?
Occurs during weeks 11 and 12
Morphodifferentiation and Histodifferentiation occur
The dental Papilla/Ectomesenchyme instructs the enamel Organ in how to change
What is morphodifferentiation?
Tooth shape change from cap to bell to tooth
Enamel knot signals cusp formation- cells atrophy in incisors
What is Histodifferentiation? Where does it primarily occur?
Cellular changes that occur primarily in the enamel organ
OEE changes from squamous to low cuboidal
What is stellate reticulum?
Core cells
Push apart OEE and IEE and helps form cap shape
What is stratum intermedium (SI)?
New flat layer of cells appear/form between the SR and IEE
What happens to IEE during histodifferentiation?
Cells change from squamous to tall columnar
IEE cells form pre-Ameloblasts that will give rise to enamel
What happens to the dental papilla during the bell stage?
 outer cells form preodontoblasts that will give rise to Dentin
Central cells will form the pulp
What happens to the dental follicle during the bell stage?
Forms a membrane around the entire tooth germ
Follicle will become encapsulated by bone and become either the maxilla or mandible
What happens to Dental lamina during the bell stage?
Starts to disintegrate and forms epithelial cell rests called cell rests of Serres
These proliferate posteriorly and give rise to the lamina of the permanent nonsuccedaneous molars
What happens to the stellate reticulum during the apposition stage?
It collapses
Which dental tissue forms first?
Dentin. Once Dentin forms then enamel can form
How are odontoblasts formed?
Pre-odontoblast attach to the basement membrane
What do the odontoblast do during the apposition stage?
Lay down the first layer of Dentin matrix (formed by collagen) and begin dentinogenesis
What is the first layer of formed Dentin called
Mantle Dentin
When do Ameloblasts form? What do they compose And what is it called?
After the mantle Dentin forms
Forms the first layer of enamel matrix and begins Amelogenesis
This first layer is called aprismatic enamel
What is aprismatic enamel?
First layer of formed enamel
Forms in response to dentin formation
What does the basement membrane get renamed as during the apposition stage?
Membrane performative
Disintegrates after attachment of odontoblasts and Ameloblasts
What forms the dentinoenamel junction?
Mantle Dentin and aprismatic enamel