dental pulp in dogs

The part in the center of a tooth made up of living soft tissue and cells called odontoblasts[WP]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the dental pulp is

The part in the center of a tooth made up of living soft tissue and cells called odontoblasts[WP]. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the dog.

Where the dental pulp is

It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the dental pulp connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of calcareous tooth.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the dental pulp. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as pulp of tooth, tooth pulp and dental pulp cell. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001754, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: calcareous tooth.
• A kind of: connective tissue.
• subtype: incisor dental pulp and molar dental pulp.
• Develops from: odontogenic papilla.

Questions

Where is the dental pulp?

It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the dental pulp connect to?

Part of: calcareous tooth.

Is the dental pulp the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.