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Journal of Dental Research, Vol 65, 1087-1093, Copyright © 1986 by International & American Associations for Dental Research Online Journals

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An ultrastructural study of tooth resorption in the kitten

A. R. Ten Cate and R. D. Anderson

Eleven kittens of various ages were used to obtain teeth in situ at differing stages of exfoliation. The teeth were processed by routine techniques for examination by light and transmission electron microscopy. The dental hard tissues were eroded by odontoclasts supported by numerous blood vessels, fibroblasts, and macrophages. No evidence of intracellular collagen was found within any of these cells, indicating that helper cells are not required to remove the collagenous component of dentin and cementum. The loss of periodontal ligament during shedding involved the removal of cells and extracellular material. Two forms of fibroblastic cell death were identified: One, apoptotic cell death, involved condensation, and its occurrence suggests that exfoliation of deciduous teeth is a programmed physiological event; the other occurred in cells containing many profiles of collagen and involved the selective disruption of the mitochondria and eventual dissolution of cytosol. This form of cell death has not been previously described and is significantly different from necrotic cell death, which was not observed during exfoliation. Some fibroblasts maintained a normal morphology. These various cellular responses suggest that phenotypically different populations of fibroblasts may exist in the periodontal ligament. Collagen removal was an extracellular occurrence which did not seem to involve increased phagocytotic activity by fibroblasts.


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