Development of the face, jaws & mouth Flashcards
Fronto-nasal process
Prominence in the upper facial area at the most cephalic end of the embryo.
Cephalic end
Head end of a structure such as the trilaminar embryonic disc.
Mandibular processes
Processes of first branchial arch that fuse at the middle to form mandibular arch.
Mandibular arch
lower dental arch with mandibular teeth or the 1st branchial/pharyngeal arch inferior to the stomodeum in the embryo.
Maxillary processes
Prominence from mandibular arch that grows superiorly and anteriorly on each side of the stomodeum of the emrbyo
Maxillary arch
Upper dental arch in which the maxillary teeth form.
Nasal placode
Placodes that develop into olfactory organ for the sensation of smell located in the mature nose.
Placode
Area of ectoderm found at the location of the developing special sense organs on the embryo.
In which weeks is the face established?
4th -10th week.
Mesenchyme from the frontonasal prominence arises from…
Neural crest cells (from midbrain and the forebrain)
Mesenchyme from the maxillary and mandibular prominences arises from…
Neural crest cells (from midbrain and the hindbrain)
UPDATED: week 4
Week four, swellings galore!
The primitive oral cavity is separated from the GI tract by a…
oropharyngeal membrane
(as the maxillary processes develop and enlarge ventrally and medially this starts to disintegrate)
Non-true fusion/merging
Process by which a groove between two facial processes is eliminated.
in between the groove the gap is essentially filled in by tissue proliferating upwards (in the valley) to ‘fuse’.
Where does non-true fusion occur?
Mandibular processes and maxillary processes
True fusion
Two separate processes growing towards each other, contacting and then fusing.
Does the primary palate separate the oral and nasal cavities?
No it demarcates it.
UPDATED: week 5
week five, placodes thrive!
UPDATED: week 6
week six, jaw, cheeks, duct and lips!
UPDATED: week 7
week seven, boney heaven!