Review dental soft tissues

Well-vascularized and innervated connective tissue surrounded by dentin.

• Periodontal ligament

• Dental pulp

• Enamel

• Cementum

Cells:

Select the defensive cells

• Fibroblasts

• Eosinophils

• Odontoblasts

• Plasma cells

• Lymphocytes

Dense irregular connective tissue

• Dental pulp

• Papillary layer

• Dentin

• Periodontal ligament

Hollow tube lined by a simple low cuboidal epithelium; secretory duct

• Dentinal tubule

• Intercalated duct

• Striated duct

• Main duct

Functional tissue

• Stroma

• Parenchyma

• Myofibroblast cell

• Myoepithelial cell

No taste buds

• Filiform papilla

• Circumvallate papilla

• Foliate papilla

• Fungiform papilla

Parakeratinized stratified squamous epithelium

• Lining mucosa

• Masticatory mucosa

• Specialized mucosa

Non-keratinized stratified squamous epithelium

• Lining mucosa

• Masticatory mucosa

• Specialized mucosa

Lingual papillae

• Lining mucosa

• Masticatory mucosa

• Specialized mucosa

Odontoblasts are identified in:

• Dental pulp (body)

• Dentin (cytoplasmic process)

• Cementum (cytoplasmic process)

• Dental pulp (cytoplasmic process)