Mouth and Tongue Flashcards
What are the 2 muscles the form the floor of the oral cavity? What are they innervated by? Function?
mylohyoid (nerve to mylohyoid) and geniohyoid (CNXII)
Depress the mandible
What is the difference between the oral cavity proper and the oral vestibule?
- oral cavity proper
- space beween upper and lower dental arches
- mastication
- lingual manipulation of food
- oral fissure
- oral vestibule
- slit-like space between teeth and gingivae (gums)

Does the parotid duct open into the oral cavity proper or the oral vestibule?
What tooth does it open near?
oral vestibule
opposite crown of upper 2nd molar tooth
Why is infection of the floor of the mouth life threatening?
What is the name for this typ eof infection?
After what type of procedure does this most often occur?
tongue swelling so much that it can block the airwys
Ludwig Angina
tooth extraction
Identify the indicated features of the mandible


Identify the indicated features from the medial/sagital view of the mandible


Identify the indicated features of the lips

unlabeled: nasolabial sulcus

What arteries supply the lips? nerves? lymphatic drainage pattern?
- vasculature
- superior and inferior labial arteries
- Innervation
- upper lip: superior labial branches of infraorbital nerves (CNV2)
- lower lip: inferior labial branches of the mental nerves (CNV3)
- Lymphatics
- upper lip/lateral parts: submandibular lymph nodes
- medial/lower lip: submental lymph nodes

What is the name for the mucous fold that connects the lips to the gums?
is the inferior or the superior longer?
labial frenulum
the superior is longer than the inferior

What myofascial components make up the cheek? What arteries supply the cheek? nerves? lymphatic drainage?
- buccinator and buccal fat
- vasculature
- buccal branches of maxillary artery
- lymphatics
- submandibular, preauricular, buccal and mandibular
- innervation
- buccal branches of mandibular nerve (sensory)
How are the gums named?
When the face the lips?
When the face the cheeks?
When they face the tongue?
labial gingiva
buccal gingiva
lingual gingiva

Identify the indicated features of the tooth
What is the typical number of adult teeth?
How are they numbered?

32
16 upper and 16 lower
third molar on upper right (far back tooth) is #1, numbered across the top the the left 3rd molar, then #17 is the third left lower molar, and the numbering continues across the bottom of the teeth, with #32 being the 3rd molar on the bottom right

Identify the type of teeth indicated by the diagram
What does “occlusion surface” mean?
What is a contact surface?

occlusion means “where grinding happens”
A contact surface is where one tooth contacts another tooth

Identify the nerve branches innervating the oral cavity


Identify the nerves the innervate the teeth and gingivae of the superior portion of the oral cavity


Identify the nerves that innervate the teeth and gums of the inferior oral cavity


What condition can be confused with sinusitis? Why does this happen? What is the nerve distribution?
Abscess of maxillary teeth
due to close proximity to maxillary sinus
maxillary nerve distribution
What parent artery supplies all of the oral cavity?
Describe the route of venous drainage from the
The maxillary artery supplies the oral cavity: posterior superior alveolar and inferior alveolar
Venous drainage: drain into pterygoid, the into internal jugular

What is the name of the feature of the tongue that divide it into anterior 2/3 and posteior 1/3? What separates these features?
What is the name of the tip of the antior tongue?
body and root; separated by terminal sulcus
apex

What is the function of the lingual papillae?
Which type are innervated differently from the rest?
Are papillae present on the entire tongue?
increase surface area and carry taste buds
vallate lingual papillae
there are no papillae on the root of the tongue
identify the indicated features of the tongue and associated structures


The sublingual papilla is the opening to what duct?
the submandibular
Identify the indicated features of the inderside of the tongue


What is the name of the condition where the lingual frenulum is too thick?
What is the treatment for this condition?
the lingual frenulum is too thick
the tongue appears notched or heart shaped when stuck out
this can cause problems wtih breast-feeding, speech impairment, and oral hygeine
treatment: frenotomy or frenuloplasty













