Lymphatic vessels of the human pulp were traced in noncarious human teeth. Lymph capillaries originated as blind sacs among the odontoblasts and in the pulp proper. They emptied into thin-walled, irregular-shaped collecting vessels that accompanied veins in their course through the pulp. The conducting vessels pass through the root as individual units before exiting through the apical foramens.
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