Accessory digestive Organs Flashcards
What are the accessorry digestive organs?
• salivary glands
•teeth
•pancreas
• liver
• gallbladder
3 saliva- producing glands
• parotid glands
• submandibular glands
•sublingual glands
It is a saliva- producing hlands tgat is located anterior to the ear
Parotid glands
•mixture of mucus and serius fluids
• help to form a food bolus
• contains salivary amylase to begin starch digestion
• dissolve chemicals so they can ba tasted
Saliva
The role is to masticate food
Teeth
Humans have 2 sets of teeth ,what are they
• deciduos teeth
•permanent teeth
How many deciduos teeth are fully formed at the age of 2?
20 teeth
Replace deciduos teeth beginning between the ages 6 to 12
Permanent teeth
How many teeth is form in the permanent teeth?
32 teeth
Classification of teeth
Incisors
Canines
Premolars
Molars
Also know as milk teeth
Deciduos teeth
Regions of a tooth
Crown
Neck
Root
Exposed part of a tooth
Crown
Layers of the crown
Outer enamel
Dentin
Pulp cavity
Region in contact with the gum and coonnects crown to root
Neck