Tomes fiber

Odontoblasts ("Odontoblasts") and the dentin they form, in which the Tomes fibers are located.

The Tomes fiber (named after the English oral surgeon John Tomes , 1815–1895) is the cell extension of an odontoblast ( dentine builder) that is located in the dentinal tubules .

The Tomes fibers begin as a thin cytoplasmic process of the odontoblasts, the perikaryon (cell body) of which is located on the border with the tooth pulp . The Tomes fibers extend to the dentin-enamel boundary and contact the preformative membrane there . With the fibers, non-medullary nerve fibers pull along, which cause toothache caused by caries . This has moved away from the earlier assumption that forwarded fluid movements in the dentinal tubules are responsible.

The Tomes- fibers are not to be confused with the Tomes- projections of ameloblasts .

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^ Pschyrembel clinical dictionary , 260th edition, de Gruyter, Berlin 2004
↑ Welsch: Textbook Histology , 2nd edition, Elsevier, Munich 2006
^ Karl Zilles, Bernhard Tillmann : Anatomie . Springer-Verlag, January 1, 2010, ISBN 978-3-540-69483-0 , p. 429.

[Pschyrembel-1] Pschyrembel clinical dictionary , 260th edition, de Gruyter, Berlin 2004

[Welsch-2] Welsch: Textbook Histology , 2nd edition, Elsevier, Munich 2006

[3] Karl Zilles, Bernhard Tillmann : Anatomie . Springer-Verlag, January 1, 2010, ISBN 978-3-540-69483-0 , p. 429.