Developing tooth, light micrograph
Light micrograph of a developing tooth in the bell stage of odontogenesis. The tooth germ, still joined to the surface epithelium, shows, from bottom to top; dental papilla, enamel organ with enamel epithelium, stratum intermedium and stellate reticulum surrounded by the outer enamel epithelium. Around the tooth germ, the alveolar bone is in an initial phase of osteogenesis., by JOSE CALVO / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
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