1. Department of Pathology, Institute of Dental Surgery, Eastman Dental Hospital, Gray''s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8LD, England;1. Department of Pedodontics, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, U.S.A.
Abstract:
Dental pulps of both the primary and permanent dentitions were studied. Fenestrated capillaries were found at varying depths within the odontoblast layer in the root and crown portions of pulps. The fenestrae were in the attenuated part of the endothelial cell cytoplasm away from the nucleus. They averaged 60 nm in diameter and were bridged by a membrane or diaphragm approximately 7 nm thick.