✅Oral And Nasal Cavity

Question 1

What is there above the nasal cavity?

Answer 1

Olfactory receptors

Question 2

What does the nasal cavity include, making it complicated?

Answer 2

Septum and nasal conchae

Question 3

What does the complicated nasal cavity do?

Answer 3

Warms up and moistens the inspired air

Question 4

What burdens the lungs?

Answer 4

Air going through the oral cavity as it cannot become warm or moist

Question 5

What is the nasal septum composed of?

Answer 5

Front- cartilage

Back- bone

Question 6

What do paranasal sinuses reduce?

Answer 6

The weight of ones head and enable good nasal voice

Question 7

What is the maxillary sinus most likely to do?

Answer 7

Have inflammation (maxillary sinusitis)

Question 8

Where are the maxillary sinuses?

Answer 8

Cheeks

Question 9

What are the 4 sinuses?

Answer 9

Maxillary
Frontal
Ethmoid
Sphenoidal

Question 10

Why does the maxillary sinus have inflammation?

Answer 10

Because its top is connected to the nasal cavity not the bottom.

Question 11

What happens to dust coming into the nasal cavity?

Answer 11

It is stuck to the nasal secretion which is swallowed together with saliva

Question 12

Pharynx can be divided into what 3 subsections?

Answer 12

Nasopharynx
Oropharynx
Laryngopharynx

Question 13

What is the air passage process?

Answer 13

Nasal cavity -> nasopharynx -> oropharynx -> larynx -> trachea

Question 14

What can be seen with an open mouth and what needs a mirror?

Answer 14

Open mouth= oropharynx

Mirror= nasopharynx and laryngopharynx

Question 15

Where is the tonsil placed?

Answer 15

Between the oral cavity and oropharynx

Question 16

How does tonsillitis occur?

Answer 16

Because the tonsil eats the infectious viri that come to pharynx

Question 17

What is the auditory tube?

Answer 17

A tube connecting the nasopharynx with the middle ear

Question 18

What does the auditory tube equal?

Answer 18

eustachian tube = pharyngotympanic tube

Question 19

Why does your ear pop when on a plane?

Answer 19

The decrease in atmospheric pressure causes tympanic membrane to protrude outward.

Question 20

What does the auditory tube link?

Answer 20

The wall of the nasopharynx to the ear

Question 21

When does the auditory tube open?

Answer 21

During swallowing and yawning

Question 22

What does the velum attach to?

Answer 22

The bones of hard palate and muscles of pharynx

Question 23

Give technical names of what the velum connects to

Answer 23

Palatal tensor (Tensor veli palatini)
Palatal levator (Levator veli palatini)
Palatopharyngeus
Palatoglossus/glossop alatine/palatoglossal

Question 24

What does the oral cavity include?

Answer 24

Teeth, tongue and palate

Question 25

What does the palate divide?

Answer 25

Nasal and oral cavities

Question 26

What is the posterior end of the palate called?

Answer 26

Uvula

Question 27

What is the anterior part of the palate called?

Answer 27

The hard palate : consists of bones

Question 28

What is the posterior part of the palate called?

Answer 28

The soft palate consisting of muscles

Question 29

How do we snore?

Answer 29

Vibration of the soft palate

Question 30

What is located between the two arches that come below the soft palate?

Answer 30

The tonsils

Question 31

Describe the hard palate

Answer 31

Bone with mucous membrane | Thicker at front and sides, thinner in the middle

Question 32

If the hard palate is rugae what does that mean?

Answer 32

It is wrinkled membrane

Question 33

What are the two bones of the hard palate?

Answer 33

Palatine process (maxilla) and horizontal plates of the palatine bone

Question 34

What is the palatine raphe?

Answer 34

Raised ridge

Question 35

What connects the jaw?

Answer 35

Ligament of Temporomandibular joint Articular Disc of Temporomandibular joint

Question 36

What are the muscles used in jaw movement?

Answer 36

Pterygoid Digrastic Temporalis Masseter

Question 37

What does the geniohyoid do to the jaw?

Answer 37

Pulls it down (open)

Question 38

What are the break downs of the 32 permanent teeth?

Answer 38

8 incisors 4 canines 8 premolars 12 molars

Question 39

Teeth are symmetric left and right as well as up and down. What are the 4 digits to remember?

Answer 39

2123

Question 40

What are teeth embedded in the mandible and maxilla surrounded by?

Answer 40

Gingiva

Question 41

What is occlusion with regards to teeth?

Answer 41

Relationship between opposing teeth

Question 42

What is malocclusion with regards to teeth?

Answer 42

Teeth occlude different to normal

Question 43

What is class I malocclusion?

Answer 43

Overcrowding & misalignment

Question 44

What is class II malocclusion?

Answer 44

Maxillary arch is further forward that mandibular arch

Question 45

What is class III?

Answer 45

Mandibular arch is further forward than maxillary arch