106 Oral Facial Anatomy Flashcards
What is the Oral Cavity?
The upper end and the beginning of the digestive system.
Where does the oral cavity begin and end?
- Begins at the lips and cheeks
- Ends at the palatine tonsils
What is the Vestibule?
The space or potential space that exists between the lips or cheeks and the teeth.
What is the Oral Cavity Proper?
The area surrounded by the teeth or the alveolar ridges back to the palatine tonsils.
What two sections if the Oral Cavity comprised of?
- The Vestibule
2. The Oral Cavity Proper
Where is the Vermilion Zone?
Red part of the lip where the mucosa meets skin.
Where is the Philtrum?
Small depression at the midline of the upper lip.
What is a frenum?
A piece of connective tissue that restrains the movement of a muscle, tongue, or lip.
Where can Labial Frenum be located?
At the midline in both the upper and lower lips.
What are Fordyce Granules?
Misplaced sebaceous glans in the lips, cheek or retromolar pad.
What is the Cortical Plate?
A dense bone on the buccal and lingual surfaces of the alveolar bone.
What are Exostoses? Where are they more commonly found?
Small extra growths of bone on a bone surface. Generally scene more on the mandible then on the maxilla.
What are Rugae?
Small ridges of connective tissue extending laterally across the anterior of the hard palate.
What is the Incisive Papilla?
Small, rounded, oblong, mound of tissue directly behind the maxilarry central incisors laying over the Incisive Foramen.
Where is the Incisive Foramen?
Located directly behind the Incisive Papilla
