Monday, April 13, 2009

Development of tooth..



- Dental lamina; is a band of epithelium that has invaded the underlying ectomesenchyme along both the horseshoe-shaped future dental arches.
- Deciduous dentition developed from dental lamina (8th week)
- Successional lamina; lingual extension of dental lamina. Responsible for dev. Of permanent incisors, canines and premolars(5th month intrauterine life)
- Accessional lamina; distal extension of dental lamina. Responsible for dev. Of molars.
- "cell rest of serre" = remnants of dental lamina.

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