Tooth Development
Tooth Development
Tooth Development
OF DENTAL GROWTH
DIVISION OF FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY
FACULTY OF DENTAL MEDICINE UNIVERSITAS AIRLANGGA
Dental growth is an important basis in dental age estimations, it is
considered useful in forensic matters.
Tooth Development
(Odontogenesis)
THERE ARE MULTIPLE STAGES IN TOOTH
DEVELOPMENT
• initiation stage – 6th to 7th week
• bud stage – 8th week
• cap stage – 9th to 10th weeks
• bell stage – 11th to 12th weeks
• apposition stage – vaires per tooth
• maturation stage – varies per tooth
Initial stages
• tooth bud of the dental lamina proliferates ~ forms a cap shaped tissue
attached to the remaining dental lamina
• this stage marks the beginning of histodifferentiation
• a depression forms in the deepest part of each tooth bud and forms the
cap or enamel organ (or dental organ) – produces the future
enamel(ectodermal origin)
• below this cap is a condensing mass of mesenchyme – dental papilla –
produces the future dentin and pulp tissue (mesenchymal origin)
• the basement membrane separating the dental organ and the dental
papilla ~ dentinoenamel junction (DEJ)
• remaining
mesenchyme surrounds the dental/enamel organ and
condenses to form the dental sac or the dental follicle
• the enamel organ + dental papilla + dental follicle is considered
the developing tooth germ or tooth primordium
• these primordium will be housed in the developing dental arches
and will develop into the primary dentition
Bell Stage
• Week 14
First deciduous incisive is seen, followed by second deciduous incisive, an
canine
• Dentine and enamel matrix deposition in anterior teeth Middle line in
incisal edge
Afterwards :
I : Deposition on Mesial and Distal
C : Stays on “simple conical” form
M : cusp formation -> MB-ML-DB-DL
In lower molar, distal cusp formed last, after all cusps has been formed,
ridge formation commence
Lower M1 permanent has been form in-utero