Seminar 9: Resorption Flashcards
What is resorption?
Physiological or pathological process
Loss of dentine and or cementum
By clastic cells
What protects dentine and cementum from resorption?
Non mineralised components: pre dentine/pre cementum/PDL
Cells: odontblasts and cementoblasts
What feature is specifically protects cementum from resorption ?
Hyaline layer of Hopewell-Smith
How does pre dentine / cementum and PDL protect against resorption?
They secrete anti invasion factors preventing attachment of clastic cells to hard tissue surface
How does hyaline layer of Hopewell- Smith protect against External Root Resorption?
Covers dentinal tubules
Protects them against noxious stimuli and irritants
What type of cells are clastic cells?
Multinucleated giant cells
What cells resorb bone?
Osteoclasts
What cells resorb dentine and cementum?
Dentinoclasts
According to Patel et al 2010 name the stages of resorption
Attachment
Clear zone formation
Podosome formation
Resorption
What happens in the attachment stage of resorption?
Patel et al 2010
Attachment of clast to hard tissue surface
What happens in the clear zone stage of resorption?
Reorganisation of myoskeleton of clastic cell allowing intimate contact of cell membrane to resorbing surface
What happens in the podosome formation stage of resorption?
Finger like projections creating a ruffled border to increase surface area to take place
What happens in the final stage of resorption?
A highly acidic environment is created leading to hard tissue breakdown
What are the requirements for resorption to take place?
- damage to predentine/cementum and PDL
- Protection from osteoblasts/cementoblasts/fibroblasts is inhibited
- Colonisation of denuded hard tissue surface by clastic cells
How can pre dentine become damaged?
Trauma
Restorative materials/procedure
Vital bleaching
Ortho
Perio disease
How can precementum become damaged?
Trauma
Ortho
Orthognathic surgery
Perio surgery
Bruxism
Heat during RCT obturation
Once an injury has occurred how are dentinoclasts and osteoclasts activated ?
Acute inflammation which initiates resorption
What are the causes of chronic inflammation which can fuel resorption?
Pulpal: bacteria in the pulp or their products leaking via cracks or restorative materials
Perio: sub gingival plaque, Ortho, root canal infection
Resorption can be sustained by?
Chronic inflammation from pulp or PDL
How can resorption be classified?
Site
Aetiology
Pathogenesis
What are the two types of resorption by site?
Internal
External
What are the types of internal resorption?
-Transient
-Progressive (sustained by bacteria or their products OR by cytotoxic materials in pulp therapy)
-Replacement
What are the types of external resorption ?
-transient
-progressive ER without persistent inflam
-progressive with persistent inflammation by bacteria / foreign material / SG plaque
-progressive ER idiopathic
-progressive ER systematic disease
-replacement resorption
What percentage of teeth suffer from internal resorption ?
2% perm teeth
What is the pathophysiology behind IR?
Damage to predentine and odontoblast layer
How may IR present clinically ?
Pink spot if takes place in pulp chamber
How does IR appear radiographically ?
Well circumscribed symmetrical oval lesion
Continuous with root canal
Chamber CANNOT be seen through lesion
With parallax how does IR appear?
Central
What maybe seen on a X-ray with IR apical to resorption lesion?
Radiopaque calcified mass
Would you expect to get positive or negative pulp test response in IR?
Can be vital
Maybe negative or coronal pulp necrotic
When do patients typically get symptoms during resorption ?
Once the pulp becomes necrotic and infected