Mechanism of Human Tooth Eruption: Review Article Including a New Theory for Future Studies on the Eruption Process

Figure 1

The embryological development of the jaws and teeth from the neural crest, shown schematically in colours on a panoramic radiograph. The different fields in the mandible are marked in blue. The white lines show three different courses of peripheral nerves to the teeth and bone in the mandible. In the maxilla, the bilateral frontonasal fields are marked in yellow, the bilateral maxillary fields in red, and the bimaxillary palatinal fields in orange. The black lines show three different courses of peripheral nerves to the teeth and bone in the maxilla.