Week by Week
Stages of Tooth Development
Developmental Disturbances
Module 1 Worksheet
Miscellaneous
100

The face begins to form during this week.

What is the 4th week.

100

This is the first stage of tooth development.

What is the initiation stage?

100

This developmental disturbance features a tooth that invaginates into itself, creating a tooth within a tooth.

What is Dens in Dente?

100

The primitive mouth is called this

What is the stomodeum?

100

The disintegration of the oropharyngeal membrane enlarges this structure.

What is the stomodeum?

200

The neural plate differentiates during this week.

What is the 3rd week?

200

This stage of tooth development is the stage when cells begin to differentiate.

What is the Bell Stage?

200

This congenital disorder results from a failure of proper mitosis and is also known as Trisomy 21.

What is Down syndrome?

200

This is the term for permanent teeth that have primary predecessors

What is succedaneous?

200

Hutchinson's incisors are caused by the teratogens of this disease

What is syphilis?

300

Facial development is completed by this week?

What is the 12th week

300

During this stage of tooth development, dental tissue types begin secretion in matrix layers

What is the Apposition Stage?

300

Displacement of ameloblasts to the root during development create this type of developmental disturbance 

 What is an enamel pearl

300

This serves as a protective barrier for the enamel organ

What is the outer enamel epithelium?

300

The tail end of the trilaminar embryonic disc is called this

What is the caudal end?

400

The tongue begins forming during which week of development?

 4th

400

Tubercle is a phenomenon that occurs during which stage of tooth development?

What is the Cap stage?

400

A geminated tooth has this type of etiology

What is congenital or hereditary

400

The periodontal ligament, alveolar bone, and cementum are derived from this

What is the dental sac?

400

This structure gives rise to the primitive pharynx

What is the foregut?

500

A cleft lip occurs during which week of development?

Week 4, when the lip is formed

500

During the cap stage, mesenchymal cells organize the tooth germ into three layers: enamel organ, dental papilla, and this:

What is the dental sac?

500

Over ingestion of this substance in water can lead to a type of enamel hypoplasia.

 What is Fluoride?

500

Dentin matrix and pulp are derived from this

What is the dental papilla?

500

A cleft lip is formed when the the maxillary process fails to fuse with this 

What is the median nasal process