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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