Tuesday 14 June 2011

pulp stones ( classification & terminology )


True : Made of dentine and lined by odontoblasts.

False: Formed from degenerating cells which mineralize.

Free: Stone not related to pulp space wall, surrounded by soft tissue.

Adherent : Stone attached to wall of pulp space, not fully enclosed by dentine.

Embedded : Stone enclosed within canal wall, less attached than the above.

Denticle: An alternative term for pulp stone, more usually a calcification filled with epithelial remnants surrounded by odontoblasts.

Fibrodentine: Material produced by fibroblast-like cells against dentine prior to differentiation of a new generation of odontoblast-like cells.

Dystrophic Calcification: Inappropriate biomineralization of the pulp in the absence of mineral imbalance.

                                      REF: IEJ, 41, 457–468, 2008

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