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Module 1: Pulp Biology Lecture Flashcards

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1
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What week of life does the first invagination of the oral epithelium occur?

A

6th

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What are the three stages of tooth development

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Bud
Cap
Bell

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What are the three structures of the Developing tooth bud

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Enamel Organ
Dental Papilla
Dental Follicle/Dental Sac

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Which of the three developmental structures is made of ectodermal cells

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Enamel Organ

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What cells are formed from the enamel organ

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ameloblasts

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What cells are formed from the dental papilla

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odontoblasts

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What cells are formed from the Dental Follicle

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Osteoblasts
Cementoblasts
Fibroblasts

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During the bell stage, what is deposited first, enamel or dentin?

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Dentin, which in turn stimulates ameloblasts to deposit enamel

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What is the approximate percentage of hydroxyapatite in dentin?

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70%

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What is the primary organic component of Dentin

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Type I Collagen (20%)

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Which is deposited faster, Secondary or Primary Dentin?

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Primary

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Where is predentin located?

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Between Odontoblasts and circumpulpal dentin

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Is the dentin tubule wider at the pulp or at the DEJ?

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Pulp

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Is there a greater density of tubules at the pulp or at the DEJ?

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Pulp

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Are dentin tubules more permeable at the DEJ or near the pulp?

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Pulp

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What makes up the bulk of all dentin, Intertubular or Intratubular?

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Intertubular

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Which sub-type of dentin is harder? Inter or Intratubular?

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Intratubular

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Which sub-type of dentin is more quickly dissolved by acids?

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Intratubular due to higher percentage of mineralization

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What can cause post-operative dentinal sensitivity?

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Opening of the tubules due to acid etching

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What is the earliest response of dentin to carious infection?

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Occluding of dentin tubules via mineral deposition (limiting permeability)

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What is dentinal fluid exactly?

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An ultrafiltrate of blood from the pulpal capillaries found inside the dentin tubules

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What is the outermost layer of the pulp?

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The odontoblastic layer

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What is housed in the odontoblastic layer?

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Odontoblast cell bodies

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What is housed in the Cell Free Zone of Weil?

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The Subodontoblastic nerve plexus of Raschkow and the blood vesell plexus

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What are the prominent cell of the cell rich zone?
Fibroblasts Stem Cells Dendritic Cells Macrophages
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What is the pulp proper?
The bulk of the pulp, inner core
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What is the most common cell in the pulp proper?
Fibroblast
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What type of collagen do odontoblasts produce?
Type I | And a tiny bit of Type 5
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What do fibroblasts secrete?
Type I and III Collagen | Proteoglycans/GAGs (Ground Substance)
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Dendritic cells present Antigens to T Helper cells during what type of immune response
Adaptive
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When is the only time you would expect to see a mast cell in the pulp tissue?
When the pulp has already been injured
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What type of T lymphocytes are associated with Type IV delayed hypersensitivity?
T Memory Cells
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Are there arteries and/or veins in the pulp?
No. Trick Question. Arterioles and Venules are the largest blood vessels in the pulp
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What artery supplies the blood for the mandibular teeth?
Inferior alveolar artery
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What artery supplies the blood for the posterior maxillary teeth
Posterior Superior Alveolar
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What artery supplies the blood for the anterior maxillary teeth?
Infraorbital Artery
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Blood from the teeth drain in to one of these two veins?
``` Facial (anteriorly) Maxillary Vein (Posteriorly) ```
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What effect due the pulpal lymphatics typically have on the interstitial fluid pressure
they lower it
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What neurotransmitter causes the vasoconstriction of pulpal blood vessels
Norepi
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When a pulp is inflammed, sensory neurons will release these two transmitters in order to DILATE the pulpal blood vessels and increase vascular permeability. This is called neurogenic inflammation
SP | CGRP
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What was the Self Strangulation Theory
Increase in pulpal tissue pressure would strangulate vessels leading the ischemia. THIS IS NOT TRUE!
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What saves the pulp from succumbing to the debunked self strangulation theory?
Capillaries have the ability to shunt blood to a localized area of injury so that the entire pulp is not subjected to increased pressure levels
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What percent of the nerve fibers in the pulp are myelinated?
20%
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Are the myelinated axons A-fibers or C-fibers?
myelinAted
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What percent of the myelinAted axons are slow speed alpha delta fibers
90%
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What are the high speed myelinated fibers called?
Alpha Beta
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Where do the A-fibers terminate?
Around odontoblasts (under, adjacent, in tubules)
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Where do the C-fibers terminate
In the pulp proper
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Which of the pulpal nerve fibers can transmit pain?
All of them
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Which fibers have a low threshold and are responsible for a sharp pricking type pain
A-Delta
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What fibers are responsible for the dull, aching, throbbing pain?
C Fibers
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According to the hydrodynamic theory how do the A fibers in the dentin tubules tell cold stimuli from hot?
Cold stimuli produces a net outward flow of dentinal fluid
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Besides cold, what else causes a net outward flow?
Air | Hyper-Osmotic (Sugar solution)
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Which is more painful, cold (outward) or heat (inward)
COLD (outward)
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So then what fibers are activated using cold testing?
A-Delta due to outward dentin fluid flow
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What percent of teeth have pulp stones of some type?
50%
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Out of cellularity, vascularity, innervation, and number/thickness of collagen; which is the only one that increases with age?
Number and thickness of collagen
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What type of cementum is at the CEJ?
Acellular
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What type of acellular cementum is only found on the coronal half of the root?
Acellular Extrinsic
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Where is the cellular Cementum?
In the CELLar (Apical)
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What cells are unique to the PDL
``` Cementoblasts Odontoclasts Osteoblasts Osteoblasts Epithelial Rest Cells of Melassez ```
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Why can patients more easily identify teeth with apical periodontitis?
Because the PDL has a higher percentage of A-Beta sensory fibers
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What type of bone is the alveolar bone proper
Compact Lamellar
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What is the difference between bundle bone and the lamina dura?
None. The lamina dura is what it is called on a radiograph
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What does a radiographic loss of lamina dura indicate?
Periapical inflammation

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