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The Morphology of Pits and Fissures

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Tooth development commences at the end of the fifth week of human gestation. It is commonly divided into the following stages: the initiation stage, the bud stage, the cap stage, the bell stage, and finally maturation. The aim of this chapter is to describe the process of early tooth development, through maturation and culminating in coronal formation. The morphology of pits and fissures is characterized showing serial ground sections and micro-CTs.

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  1. Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Katrin Bekes

  2. Karl Donath Laboratory for Hard Tissue and Biomaterial Research, School of Dentistry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Stefan Tangl & Anton Dobsak

  3. Department of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Reinhard Gruber

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Bekes, K., Tangl, S., Dobsak, A., Gruber, R. (2018). The Morphology of Pits and Fissures. In: Bekes, K. (eds) Pit and Fissure Sealants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71979-5_2

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