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Dentinogenesis and amelogenesis (100X)

Microimage
Image copyright: Mathias Nordvi, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. (Tissue stain: Azan).

A thin blue zone within the incisal part of the tooth bud, in between the ecto- and mesoderm (ie. the inner dental epithelium and the dental papilla), indicates that the dentinogenesis has begun. Dentinogenesis is the formation of dentine.