Sentences with phrase «when odontoblasts»

When odontoblasts stop pumping fluid, the hydrostatic pressure in the tooth / pulp is lowered and the normal fluid movement tends to reverse.

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Since the days of John Hunter it has been known that when the enamel and dentine are injured by attrition or caries, teeth do not remain passive but respond to the injury by producing a reaction of the odontoblasts in the dental pulp in an area generally corresponding to the damaged tissue and resulting in a laying down of what is known as secondary dentine.
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