HEAD NECK
ORAL CAVITY AND TONGUE
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Question
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Cementum-forming cells are called ____
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ameloblasts
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odontoblasts
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cementoblasts
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none of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Cementum is a thin layer of hard dental tissue covering the anatomic roots of teeth. It is formed by cells known as cementoblasts, which develop from undifferentiated mesenchymal cells in the connective tissue of the dental follicle.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cementocytes are cementoblasts enclosed in a self-generated matrix. Cementoblast is a cell that originates from follicular cells around the root of the tooth, and its function is cementogenesis. Cementocytes reside in a mineralized extracellular matrix of the cellular cementum.
Detailed explanation-3: -cement. root. solid body substance.
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