Level 4

Dr. Anas Rabata

- DENTIST BACHELOR DEGREE, Damascus university in 2007. - MASTER DEGREE, Department of Histology and oral Pathology in Damascus university in 2011 - Dental Implantation Diploma, Dental Collage, Beirut, Lebanon, in 2010.

Pulp

Mesenchymal connective tissue From dental papilla

Cavity in the central part of tooth

Molar pulp > incisor pulp

Surrounded by dentin
Except apical

Properties

Inductive
Oral epithelial dental lamina Enamel organ particular type of tooth

formative
dentin

nutritive
By Blood vessels + odontoblastic processes Maintain vitality of tooth

sensory
Respond with pain to all stimuli

defensive
By producing reparative dentin and mineralizing any affected dentinal tubule

Pulp chamber

Apical foramen

Anatomy

Root canal

Accessory canals

Pulp chamber ( coronal pulp)

The shape of pulp chamber is same as the outline of outer surface of dentin Pulp horns : extension of the pulp into cusps Become smaller with advancing age ( deposition of secondry dentin)

Root canal (Radicular pulp)

From cervical of the crown to the root apex

Single (anterior) Multiple ( posterior)

Continuous with periapical CT

Apical foramen

Maxillary teeth > mandibular teeth

Bounded by dentin or by cementum

Accessory canals

Anywhere along the root

Apical third

Accessory canals

Cell rich zone

Cell free zone (weil`s zone)

Odentoblast cell layer

Structural features cell

Odontblasts
fibroblast Defense cells

Intercellular substance
fibers
vessels Nerve fibers

Ground substance

Highly differentiated connective tissue cells

Columnar in crown Cuboidal in middle of root Spindle in apex

Odontblast

Contains a large oval nucleus in adifferent levels

Protoplasmic processes (Tomes` process)

fibroblasts

Most numerous in pulp

-Stellate shape -Round or spindle (older)

-synthesis of collagen fiber -ingesting and degrading

Histocyte (macrophage)

Mast cell

lymphocytes

Defense cells
Lymphoid wandering cells

Plasma cell

Undifferentiated mesenchymal cells

Young pulp > pulp after root completion

Polyherdral in shape with oval nuclei

On demand they become Odontoblast , fibroblast , macrophages

Intercellular substance

1- acid mucopolysaccharides

Fumction 1- support 2- transport between blood vessels and cells

-Dense -Gel like substance

2- protein polysaccharide 3- chondroitin A&B 4- hyaluronic acid 5- glycoprotein

Bundle collagen (Root canals)

Diffuse collagen = scattered fibers

Fibers increase with age

fibers

vasseles

Blood vasseles Lymph vasseles

nerves

Non-myelinated myelinated