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Introduction<br />

communication, which may be involved in regulating the pulp healing process<br />

(Magloire, Couble et al. 2004).<br />

Figure 8: Histology <strong>of</strong> first upper bovine molar. 7µm section, Haematoxylin and eosin<br />

stained. Bar scale=500µm (A): higher magnification view – bar scale - 250µm<br />

Unlike osteocytes, <strong>odontoblast</strong>s do not become incorporated in the matrix, except for<br />

their processes that are embedded in the tubules. This is why dentine must not be<br />

considered as an individual tissue but rather as the dentine-pulp complex. The<br />

<strong>odontoblast</strong> processes contain limited organelles (which are believed to be<br />

responsible for the later secretion <strong>of</strong> intra-tubular dentine), but are mostly filled by a<br />

dense network <strong>of</strong> micro-filaments and other micro-tubules.<br />

Increasingly, coronal <strong>odontoblast</strong>s are regarded as being different from those found<br />

in the root (Nanci 2003). The coronal <strong>odontoblast</strong>s are elongated and pyramidal with<br />

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