The periodontium includes:

• Dental pulp

• Dentin

• Enamel

• Cementum

Cementum

According to Cellularity: cementum destroying cells

• Cementoblasts

• Cementoclasts

• Cementocytes

ALVEOLAR BONE / BONE / SOCKET

Surrounds the alveolar bone proper and

provides additional bone support (Covers the alveolar bone proper)

• Alveolar bone Proper (lamina dura)

• Supporting Bone

Thin, leaf-like faults between enamel rod groups extending from the enamel surface toward the DEJ. Contains mostly organic materials.

• Enamel lamellae

• Enamel spindles

• Gnarled enamel

• Enamel tufts

groups of enamel rods that intertwine with another group forming a curving irregular path towards the tooth surface.

• Enamel tufts

• Enamel spindles

• Gnarled enamel

• Enamel lamellae

- during which this matrix is mineralized

- hardening

• Formative Stage

• Calcification Stage

• Maturation

What is the process by which tooth enamel becomes demineralized by acids?

• Calcification

• Remineralization

• Caries formation

• Enamelogenesis

dentin somewhat darker and less translucent

• True

• False

Which of the following is a non-calcified tissue:

• Enamel

• Dentin

• Pulp

• Cementum

Inside of the tooth, alive, contains blood vessels and the nerve

• enamel

• crown

• root

• dentin

• dental pulp