PMID: 2486721Sep 1, 1989Paper

Mineralization patterns in the dentine of the floor of the pulp chamber of porcine molars

Tsurumi shigaku. Tsurumi University dental journal
H Sawamura

Abstract

The relationship between the arrangement of the matrix fibre bundles and the shape of the mineralization front (mineralization pattern) were observed in the dentine of the subpulpal wall of porcine molars. The observations were made using mainly light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy on the primary dentine excluding the secondary dentine. The results obtained shows that the dentine of the subpulpal wall consists of two parts, a surface layer and the circumpulpal dentine. The surface layer can be divided into two sublayers according to the arrangement of it's matrix fibres. The mineralization pattern was also observed to have another two sublayers which did not correspond with the two fibrous subdivisions. Adjacent to the dentine-cement junction, there is a layer, measuring about 3 microns in thickness, in which the matrix fibres run parallel to the junction. The second layer is characterized by two types of fibre bundles which run perpendicularly to the dentine-cement junction. These outer radially oriented fibres are about 1-2 microns in diameter, and the inner radially oriented fibre bundles are coarse, 10 microns in diameter. In the outermost 10 microns, mineralization begins as an aggregation of mineral granules,...Continue Reading

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