Tooth Development Flashcards
What is the Crown?
Part of tooth covered w/enamel
Provide chewing surface
What is the Root?
Part of tooth covered with cementum and embedded in the jaw
Supports the crown
Periodontium includes?
Cementum
Alveolar bone
Periodontal Ligament
List the Crown Formation Stages
- Dental Lamina Stage
- Bud stage
- Cap stage
- Bell stage
- Apposition stage
- Maturation stage
What is Proliferation?
Cell dividing
What is Differentiation?
Cells stop dividing (if still dividing it won’t specialize!)
Undergo morphological changes, then acquire functional assignments
Ex. a cell becoming an odontoblast
What is Morphogenensis?
Establishment of shape and size of future tooth
Achieved by differential growth
Explain the Dental Lamina Stage
- Ectomesenchyme cell induce oral epithelium which creates horseshoe-shaped ridges along both jaws
- Successional dental lamina
Explain the Bud Stage
- Proliferation of DL epithelial cells at 10 locations on each ridge, which makes tooth buds
* Tooth buds: early enamel organs - Ectomesenchyme begins to condense around epithelial bud
Explain the Cap Stage:
- Morphodifferentiation
- unequal proliferation of bud cells (cap) - Ectomesenchymal cells become dental papilla (DP) and dental sac (DS)
- Creation of the tooth germ
- Succesional dental lamina forms on LINGUAL side of DL
- Cytodifferentiation
- four layers of enamel organ
What is a tooth germ?
Present in Cap Stage
enamel organ + dental papilla + dental sac
What does the enamel organ form?
Forms Enamel
Epithelial component of tooth germ
What does the dental papilla form?
Forms Dentin and Pulp
Derived from neural crest cells
What does the dental sac form?
Forms cementum, alveolar bone and periodontal ligament (basically forms the periodontium!)
Derived from neural crest cells
Explain the Bell Stage:
- Cont. differentiation of enamel organ that produces 4 distinct layers with different functions
- Creation of cervical loop
- Dental papilla cells continue to proliferate & they develop into the OUTER and INNER dental papilla cells
- Dental sac cells continue to proliferate & they develop into periodontal tissues
What are the 4 distinct layers the enamel organ produces in the Bell Stage?
Inner enamel epithelium
Stratum intermedium
Stellate reticulum
Outer enamel epithelium
Inner enamel organ (IEE) function
- Differentiate into ameloblasts (enamel forming cells)
- Induce the differentiation of adjacent cells of dental papilla into odontoblasts