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Tooth (ground cross section)

    

Workbook tasks

Slide 16: Tooth

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This slide is a crosswise ground section of a tooth.

Identify microscopically:

  1. Enamel

  2. Spindles and tufts

  3. Dentine

  4. Cementum

Draw and annotate:

A diagram of the tooth showing the different structures.

 

Reflection:
  1. What are the spindles and tufts and what do they look like?
 

Slides

Inlays on the right upper incisors

Microscope

Cross section through a decalcified tooth

Very low magnification

Very low magnification of the tooth

Low magnification

Low magnification of the tooth
Low magnification of the tooth
Low magnification of the tooth
Low magnification of the tooth
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