Enamel pearls: ultrastructural feature and hypothesis of morphogenesis

Authors

  • L Fonzi
  • M Belli
  • A Gasparoni
  • L Capezzuoli
  • S Carboncini

Keywords:

enamel, cementum, external pearls, morphogenesis, scanning electron microscope

Abstract

Five enamel pearls were examined by Scanning Electron Microscope. Some external pearls presented a bare enamel surface, others were covered by a thin layer of cementum.

The enamel pearls showed irregular dystrofic enamel surface or a thin layer without structure, rows of irregular Tome’s processes pits, enamel caps and focal holes. Some enamel pearls revealed little areas of enamel surface resorption like-resorbing lacunae with, in some cases, areas of tissue repair.

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Published

2020-04-17

Issue

Vol. 35 No. 3-4 (1992)

Section

Original Research Articles

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