COURSE: DEVELOPMENT OF TOOTH

LESSON 2: STAGES OF TOOTH DEVELOPMENT –

BUD STAGE & CAP STAGE

DR. YUKTI RAJ

MDS

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 CONTENTS

Recap of the lesson One

Stages of tooth development
Bud stage
Cap stage
Transient structures

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PREVIOUSLY…

■ Ectoderm and ectomesenchyme

■ Dental and vestibular lamina
■ Enamel organ formation

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 STAGES OF TOOTH
DEVELOPMENT
■ Tooth development is a continuous process.
■ For descriptive purposes, it is divided into four main
developmental stages depending on the shape of enamel organ
a) Bud stage
b) Cap stage
c) Bell stage
d) Advanced Bell stage

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 BUD STAGE

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BUD STAGE- SALIENT FEATURES
Structures Changes
Enamel organ Peripheral cells – low columnar
Central cells - polygonal
Ectomesenchyme Cells condense around the tooth bud –
Dental papilla
Condensed ectomesenchyme around tooth
bud and dental papilla – Dental
sac/dental follicle

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 UNEQUAL GROWTH

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 CAP STAGE

Acts as a shock absorber

and protect the delicate
enamel forming cells.

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 CAP STAGE
■ The enamel organ may appear to have a double attachment of dental
lamina to the overlying epithelium – enamel niche

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 CAP STAGE- SALIENT FEATURES
Structures Changes

Enamel organ Peripheral cells cover the convexity of “cap”– cuboidal

[OUTER ENAMEL EPITHELIUM]
Peripheral cells covering the concavity of the “cap”- tall,
columnar cells [INNER ENAMEL EPITHELIUM]
Central cells – Stellate Reticulum

Dental papilla Formative organ for dentin and primordium of pulp

Cells differentiate into odontoblasts

Dental sac/Dental Denser and fibrous

follicle

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 TRANSIENT STRUCTURES
■ ENAMEL KNOT – The cells in the center of the enamel organ are
densely packed. Projects in part toward the underlying dental papilla, so
that the center of the epithelial invagination shows a slightly knob like
enlargement that is bordered by the labial and lingual enamel grooves.

■ ENAMEL CORD – vertical extension of the enamel knot

■ ENAMEL SEPTUM – When the enamel cord extends to meet the outer
enamel epithelium. It divides the stellate reticulum into two parts.

■ ENAMEL NAVEL – The outer enamel epithelium at the point of

meeting shows a small depression. Resembles umbilicus.

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 TRANSIENT STRUCTURES

■ Enamel knot and cord acts as a reservoir of dividing cells for the
growing enamel organ.

■ Enamel knot acts as signaling center for important growth factors

are expressed by the cells of the enamel knot and thus they play an
important part in determining the shape of the tooth.

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