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Membrane in the Human Tooth

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THE inner structure of human teeth, the dentine, is occupied by the dental pulp. This is generally described as a syncytium, cell tissue in which the cell walls are not clear, though the outermost layer of the pulp consists of a well-defined layer of cells, the odontoblasts, firmly attached to the dentine.

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PINCUS, P. Membrane in the Human Tooth. Nature 209, 317–318 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/209317a0

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