Adamantoma
Historical document, translated for reference. It reflects medical knowledge of the 1920s–30s and is not medical advice.
Summary
Adamantoma, also known as enameloid and enamel drops, is a developmental tooth defect characterized by nodular thickenings on the enamel surface, typically at the junction of the crown and root. Microscopic examination reveals that these thickenings involve not only enamel but also dentin and pulp cavity.
Encyclopedia entry (1928–1936)
ADAMANTOMA (from Greek adamas - diamond), also designated as enameloid and enamel drops, represents a developmental defect of the tooth consisting in that on its enamel covering, usually in the area of transition from crown to root, there is one or more protrusions, which externally appear as nodular thickenings of the enamel. A ground section prepared from such a tooth, however, reveals that in the said protrusion not only enamel participates, but also a layer of dentin, as well as the pulp cavity. In connection with this, the view on the origin of A., which assumes that the basis of this developmental defect of the tooth is a primary displacement, protrusion of odontoblasts (see), must be considered more correct than the idea of a diverticulum of the enamel germ.
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“Adamantoma.” Soviet Medical Encyclopedia. English translation of Bolshaya Meditsinskaya Entsiklopediya, 1st ed. (Moscow, 1928–1936), ed. N. A. Semashko. https://sovietmedicalencyclopedia.pages.dev/article/adamantoma/