What Is Dental Epithelial Attachment?
What Is Dental Epithelial Attachment? Epithelial attachment refers to the mechanism of attachment of the junctional epithelium to a tooth or dental implant, i.e., hemidesmosomes. The cells of the epithelium at this attachment point are non-keratinized and form a collar around the tooth around the cemento-enamel junction. Where does junctional epithelium attach? Generally, the epithelium,