This document provides details on the structure and composition of enamel. It notes that enamel is the hardest tissue in the body, covering the anatomical crown. It is made up primarily of hydroxyapatite crystals arranged in enamel prisms/rods from the dentin-enamel junction to the surface. The direction of the prisms changes in a sinusoidal pattern. Between the prisms is interprismatic enamel. Near the surface is aprismatic enamel which is more highly mineralized. Throughout life, the crown is covered by an organic layer or integument.
Amelogenesis is the formation of enamel. During amelogenesis, the ameloblast (enamel-forming cells) undergo various stages i.e the life cycle of ameloblast.
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PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
STRUCTURE OF ENAMEL
DEVELOPMENT OF ENAMEL
EPITHELIAL ENAMEL ORGAN
AMELOGENESIS
LIFE CYCLE OF AMELOBLASTS
AGE CHANGES IN ENAMEL
DEFECTS OF AMELOGENESIS
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS
Amelogenesis is the formation of enamel. During amelogenesis, the ameloblast (enamel-forming cells) undergo various stages i.e the life cycle of ameloblast.
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PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
STRUCTURE OF ENAMEL
DEVELOPMENT OF ENAMEL
EPITHELIAL ENAMEL ORGAN
AMELOGENESIS
LIFE CYCLE OF AMELOBLASTS
AGE CHANGES IN ENAMEL
DEFECTS OF AMELOGENESIS
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS
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4. • The anatomic crown of a tooth is covered by an
acellular, avascular, highly mineralized material
known as ENAMEL.
• Origin
• Enamel : Ectodermal in origin
• Dentine, cementum & pulp: Ectomesenchymal in
origin
5. • Thickest: over cusps & incisal edges
• Thinnest: cervical margin
• Hardest biological tissue
• While highly mineralized, withstands both shearing & impact
forces well.
• Its abrasion resistance is high, allowing it to wear down slowly
• Neither undergo repair nor replacement.
6. • Surface enamel is harder, denser & less porous than subsurface
enamel.
• Hardness & density also decreases
• from the surface towards the interior
• from cuspal/incisal tip towards thee cervical margin.
7. • Birefringent crystalline material, the crystals reflect light
differently in different directions.
• Young enamel
• Light is almost entirely internally reflected with no wavelength
differentially absorbed.
• Result in Low translucency & white color
• Changes with age
• Translucency increases with age-- some color of the underlying dentine is
transmitted --- yellow appearance.
8. Hydroxyapatite crystals
• Principal mineral component- calcium hydroxyapatite
• By volume = 88-90%
• By weight = 95-96 %
• Mineral content increases from DEJ to surface
• Core of crystallites-
• rich in magnesium & carbonate
• More soluble than periphery
13. • Water
• By weight: 2 %, by volume: 5-10 %
• Related to porosity of enamel
• Location
• Between crystals & organic material
• Trapped within defects of crystallites structure
• Remainder forms a hydration layer coating the crystals
• Clinical importance- fluoride travel through the water
component
14. • Organic matrix
• By weight : 1-2 %
• Crystallites arrangement is straight & regular - 0.05%
• Crystallites arrangement is irregular – 3 %
• Most important : enamel proteins
• Amelogenenins & Non-amelogenenins
• Lipid material: cross-striations, lines of retzius, HS bands,
prism sheath & prism code
15. • Composite ceramic with the crystallites oriented in a complex 3-D
continuum.
• Basic structural unit of enamel = enamel prism/rod
• Each prism consist of several million crystallites packed into long
thin rods
• Length= 2.5mm, diameter = 5-6 μm
• Direction = from DEJ to surface
• At the boundary, the crystallites deviate by 40-60o from inside of the
prism
19. • The enamel between the
prism is k/s interprismatic
enamel
• Its composition is similar to
that of inside the prism, but
it has a different optical
effect because crystals
deviate by 40-60o from
inside the prism.
Boundary
Core
20. • Predominates in humans
• Shows clear ‘head’ &
‘tail’ region
• The tail of one prism
lying between the head
of the adjacent prisms &
point cervically
Head
tail
21. • Head-crystals
runs parallel to
the long axis of
the prism
• Tail –crystals
are angled 65-
70o to the long
axis prisms
22. • The change within a single
prism is gradual such that there
is no clear division between the
head & tail of the same prism
• However, the crystals in the tail
of one prism show a sudden
divergence from the crystals in
the head of adjacent prism
Head
Tail
25. • Prismatic & Interprismatic enamel are actually continuous.
• Peripheral crystallites of the prisms deviate from their long axis
to form a continuum with interprismatic enamel.
• Interprismatic crystallites cross prisms at an angle of approx.
60o
27. • When viewed in section parallel to
long axis of tooth
• Most prisms appear to travel in a
Sinusoidal line from DEJ to the
surface
• The prism meet the surface at
varying angles
• Just above cervical margin - 60o
• Within fissures - 20o
28.
29. • 10-13 layers of prism follow the same direction, but prism
blocks above & below follow path in different directions.
• This periodic change in prism directions give rise to a banding
pattern termed Hunter – Scherger bands.
• Width= 50 μm
• Visible because different bands of prism reflect or transmit
light in different directions
30. Generally they are oriented at
right angle to dentin.
Near the incisal edge or cusp tip
they change gradually to an
increasingly oblique direction
until they are almost vertical in
the region of edge or tip of cusp.
31. • In cervical and central parts of deciduous tooth they
are approximately horizontal.
33. • The Sinusoidal directions of
prisms in alternating sheets
result in alternating reflecting
bands on cut surface.
• Different sheets exhibit
different crystal orientations &
thus different degrees of
polarization
37. • As prisms are arranged in a spiral
pattern, in some area beneath the
cusps & incisal edges , the changes
in the direction of the prisms
appear more marked & irregular
• The groups of prisms seem to
spiral around each other, giving
the appearance of “Gnarled”
enamel
• Gnarled= full of knots
38. Aprismatic
enamel
Prismatic
enamel
• Newly erupted primary
teeth = outer 20-100 μm of
enamel
• Newly erupted permanent
teeth = outer 20-70 μm of
enamel
• Here enamel crystallites are
aligned at right angles to
the surface & parallel to
each other
39. Aprismatic
enamel
Prismatic
enamel
• This surface layer is
more highly mineralized
than the rest of enamel
because of absence of
prism boundaries
• It occurs because of
absence of tomes
process from the
ameloblasts in the first
& final stages of enamel
deposition
40. • During development changes in the enamel secretory rhythm,
chemical composition and /or the position of the developing
enamel front are recorded as Incremental lines
• 2 types
• Short period = cross – striations
• Long period = enamel striae
41. • Lines that cross prisms
at right angles
• Interval = 3-6μm
• These are diurnal being
formed every 24 hours
parallel to the secretory
face of the ameloblasts
42.
43. • Prominent lines that runs
obliquely across the
prisms to the surface
• They represent the
successive positions of
the enamel-forming
front
49. • Over the whole of lateral surface of
enamel , enamel striae reach the
surface in a series of fine grooves
running circumferentially
• These are k/s Perikymata grooves &
are separated by Perikymata ridges
• In deciduous tooth, these features are
ever clearly visible in cervical enamel
of deciduous 2nd molar
52. • Enamel striae are less pronounced
or absent from enamel formed
before birth.
• A particularly marked striae is
formed @ birth - Neonatal line
• It reflect the metabolic changes at
birth
• Prism change both direction &
thickness at this event
59. • First, scalloping pattern; 25-100 μm, cusp & incisal edges
• DEJ is smooth on lateral surface of crown
• Second, smaller, micro-scallops 2-5 μm in size
• Third, a nano-structural level of organization, the ends of fine
collagen fibrils from the dentine mingling with the initial
crystals of enamel
• DEJ is less mineralized than either Enamel or Dentine
63. • Narrow (up to 8μm in dia),
round, sometimes club-shaped
tubules
• Extend upto 25 μm in enamel
• Result of some odontoblastic
process that, during the early
stages of enamel development,
insinuated themselves between
the ameloblasts
• Not aligned with the prisms
Enamel
spindle
64. • Junctional structures in the
inner 3rd of enamel that, in
ground section, resemble
tufts of grass.
• Same direction as that of
prisms
• They are hypomineralized
• Recur at approx. 100μm
intervals along the junction
Enamel tufts
65. • Each tuft is several prism wide.
• This appearance result from protein, presumed
to be residual organic matrix, at the prism
boundaries of hypomineralized prisms.
• Best visualized- transverse sections
• Highest concentration of ‘Tuftelin’ protein.
66. • Sheet-like, apparent structural faults
• Run through entire thickness of
enamel
• Hypomineralized, narrow, longer &
less common than enamel tufts
• Best visualized- transverse sections
67. Lamellae may arise
• Developmentally due to incomplete maturation of groups of
prisms, leading to deposition of enamel protein
• After eruption, cracks produced due to loading of enamel, in
which saliva and oral fluids accumulates.
68. • Small isolated spheres of enamel
• Occasionally found on the root, generally
found on the cervical margin.
• Enamel is prismatic, with prisms
following an irregular course
• Particularly common in the root
bifurcation region where they may
predispose to plaque accretion following
gingival recession.
69.
70.
71.
72. • Throughout its life, crown is covered by an organic layer or
integument
• Before eruption, crown is covered by
• Overlying oral mucosa
• Coronal part of dental follicle
• Vestiges of the enamel organ (plus its associated 1o enamel cuticle)
74. • After eruption, parts of integument of enamel organ origin are lost by
• Degeneration of its epithelial component
• Attrition & abrasion of the underlying cuticular component
• Primary (pre-eruptive) enamel cuticle acquires additional matter form
• Region of gingival sulcus-from lining epithelium
• Coronal to gingival margin – from saliva
• This salivary layer-Acquired pellicle
• Bacteria : adhere to cuticle----pellicle----plaque
75. • Nasmyth’s membrane
• Reduced enamel epithelium+ primary enamel cuticle
• Basal lamina (primary enamel cuticle)
• Not evident at the light microscopic level
• Interposed between enamel surface & REE
80. • Part of crown well exposed in mouth is covered by
• REE- soon lost
• 1o enamel cuticle- soon acquires organic elements of salivary origin-
acquired pellicle
• Above gingival margin –tooth covered by—plaque
• Region of gingival crevice-tooth covered by- 1o enamel cuticle
• Below this layer-- tooth covered by--- junctional epithelium