A manual of dental anatomy : human and comparative / by Charles S. Tomes.

Date:
1894
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    figure, wliiuli run up between tlie odontoblasts and cuter the dental canals. To this we shall have to recur in speak- ing of the pulp. [u a recent paper (Comptes Eendus, 1880) Magitot also impugns the accuracy of the views ordinarily accepted as to the structure of dentine, denying the existence of any 16 ('). special walls to tlio tubes, and further arguing tli;it it is undesirable to think or speak of the channels in dried dentine us tubes at all. For, he argues, the}' are not tid)es in the Fresh state, seeing that the fibrils are adherent to the matrix and form a part of it, and that they were originally jn-ecisely the same tissue. He would ]n-efer to speak of ;lentine as being a fil)rillar tissue included in a hard and homogeneous matrix. These views, however, do not diflfer substantially from those in the text, save tliat M. Magitot does not recognise (M After Miigitot. a. Dentinal iilirils. Aiiiorplious niati'ix. f. Oilont()bl;i?ts. d. Nuclei of odontoblasts, c. Stellate cells. /'. Nci-vc extremities wliicli arc continuous witli the branched cells.