Alveolar Bone, and Periodontium

Bone is synthesized by osteoblasts which transport calcium ions from blood into a secreted, uncalcified osteoid matrix composed mostly of type I collagen. During calcification, monocyte-like cells are attracted out of the adjacent blood capillaries and adhere to irregularities in the calcifying bone surface and eventually become osteoclasts. These cells, which resorb the bone, develop according to genetic and environmental stimuli that determine bone shape and response to stress. 

3 The Connective Tissue Extracellular Matrixand Its Major Components 

The stroma within which the principal periodontal fibers are embedded is composed of proteoglycans within which are embedded oxytalan fibers (Sect. 3.1.3) whose elasticity is important (Sect. 3.1.3). Mini-oxytalan fibers surround blood vessels and are attached to 

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Periodontosis is a disease in which the alveolar bone and periodontium regress by bacterial infection. Gottlow et al. found that these regressed tissues can be... 

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