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Anatomy of the skull (bones, features, articulation etc.) Flashcards

1
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What are the 22 bones of the skull?

Can you locate this on a picture?

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  • Nasal
  • Ethmoid
  • Lacrimal
  • Palatine
  • Zygomatic
  • Maxilla
  • Infraorbital canal of the maxilla
  • Mandible
  • Sphenoid bone
  • Middle nasal concha of the ethmoid bone
  • Perpen
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What 2 groups of bones is the skull separated into?

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The NEUROCRANIUM and VISCEROCRANIUM

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What is the NEUROCRANIUM?

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The 8 bones that surround and protect the brain

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4
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What is the VISCEROCRANIUM?

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The 14 bones that make up the face

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5
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What bones make up the NEUROCRANIUM?

Can you label this on a diagram?

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  • Frontal
  • Temporal (x2)
  • Parietal (x2)
  • Sphenoid
  • Ethmoid
  • Occipital
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What bones make up the VISCEROCRANIUM?

Can you label this on a diagram?

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  • Mandible
  • Vomer
  • Nasal (x2)
  • Lacrimal (x2)
  • Zygnomatic (x2)
  • Inferior nasal conchae (x2)
  • Plantine (x2)
  • Maxillae (x2)
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What is the middle nasal concha of the ethmoid bone?

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What is the mental foramen?

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9
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What is the inferior nasal concha?

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What is the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone?

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What is the infraorbital canal of the maxilla?

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12
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What are the 9 surfaces of the tooth?

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  • Mesial
  • Distal
  • Buccal
  • Labial
  • Lingual
  • Palatal
  • Occlusal
  • Incisal
  • Cervical
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What is the mesial surface of the tooth?

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Closest to the midline

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What is the distal surface of the tooth?

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Furthest from the midline

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15
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What is the buccal surface of the tooth?

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Surface closest to the cheek (premolars/molars)

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16
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What is the labial surface of the tooth?

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Surface closest to the lips (incisors)

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17
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What is the lingual surface of the tooth?

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Surface closest to the tongue (on all bottom teeth)

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What is the occlusal surface of the tooth?

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Biting edge of the premolars and molars

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What is the incisal surface of the tooth?

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Biting edge of the incisors

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What is the cervical surface of the tooth?

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Edge of the tooth closest to the gingival margin

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21
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What are the 3 parts of the tooth?

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Crown
Neck
Root

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22
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What is the enamel of the the tooth?

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23
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What is the dentin of the tooth?

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24
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What is the gingiva?

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25
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What is the pulp cavity of the tooth?

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26
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What is the periodontal ligament of the tooth?

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27
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What is the root canal?

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28
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What is the alveolus?

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29
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What is the cementum?

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30
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What is the gingival sulcus?

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31
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What is the apical foramen?

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32
Q

What is a dental chart?

Describe it

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A diagrammatic representation of the teeth on paper showing all the surfaces of the teeth

Midline - divides oral cavity into left and right
Upper and lower arches

11-18 (top left)
21-28 (top right)
31-38 (bottom right)
41-48 (bottom left)

33
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When charting a patient, how do you look at them?

A

Face on

34
Q

Name and illustrate the parts of the tooth

A 
Enamel 
Dentine
Pulpal chamber 
Cement 
Root 
Alveolus 
Periodontal ligament 
Apical foramen 
Gingival sulcus
Gingiva
35
Q

What are the 2 types of dentition?

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1) Deciduous

2) Permanent

36
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What are the differences between dentition?

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37
Q

What does the presence of restoration in a tooth show?

A

A unique picture of the individual

38
Q

Why are xrays useful?

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Can compare the xrays of a dead individual with his/her antimortem dental records

39
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How can dentition be used to identify human remains?

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Specific patterns of primary and permanent dentition depending on age

40
Q

What is a glabella?

A

Small depression medial to supraorbital ridges and superior to nasal bones (between the eyebrows)

41
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What is the gnathion?

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The most anterior-inferior, mid-sagittal point on the border of the mandible (midpoint of the lower portion of the mandible)

42
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What is the gonion?

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The most, posterior and lateral point of the angle of the mandible (outer point/corner of the jaw)

43
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What is the labrale inferious?

A

The point where the inferior vermillion border meets the mid-sagittal (median) plane

44
Q

What is the vermilion border?

Inferior VM?

A

The coloured edge lip

The coloured edge of the LOWER lip

45
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What is the mentolabial sulcus?

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The sulcus between the lower lip and the chin

46
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What is the menton?

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The most posterior-inferior, mid sagittal point of the border of the mandible (lowest point of the median part of the chin)

47
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What is the mid-nasal?

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Mid-point between the superior and inferior of the border of the nasal bone in the median plane

48
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What is the mid-philtrum?

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The mid point between the two vertical grooves under the nose

49
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What is the mid-ramus?

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The mid-point between condyle and the angle (gonion) of the mandible

50
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What is the philtrum?

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The two vertical grooves under the nose

51
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What is the mandible?

A

The jaw

52
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What is the nasion?

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The intersection between the frontonasal structure and the median plane (dip between the eyes/above the nose)

53
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What is the pogonion?

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The most projecting point in the mid-sagittal plane of the chin

54
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What is the prosthion?

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The most anterior point on the maxiallary alveolar process in the midsagittal plane

55
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What is the alveolar process?

A

The thickened ridge of bone that contains the tooth sockets on the bones that bare teeth

56
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What are the bones that bare teeth?

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The maxillary and the mandible

57
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What is the rhinion?

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The free border of the nasal bone in the mid-sagittal plane

58
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What is the subnasale?

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Point at which the septum and the upper lip merge in the mid-sagittal plane

59
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What is the vertex?

A

The meeting point of the 4 cranial bones

60
Q

What are the 4 cranial bones?

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2 x Parietal
Occipital
Frontal

61
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What is the zygion?

A

The most lateral part of the zygomatic arch

62
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What is the zygomatic arch?

A

The cheekbones

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