Oral Cavity and Tooth Development Flashcards
What bounds the oral cavity superiorly?
- hard and soft palate
What binds the oral cavity inferiorly?
- tongue and floor of mouth
What binds the oral cavity anterior and lateral?
- teeth
What binds the anterior cavity posteriorly?
- oropharynx
What is the area enclosed between lips and teeth
- vestibule
what is transitional zone between external haired skin and internal oral mucosa?
- vermillion border
Where does the color in the oral cavity come from?
- derived from highly vascular dermis and thin overlying keratinized epidermis
Do the lips have sweat and sebaceous glands?
- nope
Why are the lips highly sensitive?
- due to a rich sensory innervation
What is the oral cavity responsible for?
- ingestion
- fragmentation
- moistening of food
______ involves cutting, chewing, and grinding of food by occlusal surfaces of teeth
- Mastication
What forms the dental arcade?
- teeth
What are some other functions the oral cavity is involved in?
- speech
- facial expression
- sensory perception
- respiration
what are the lips themselves know as?
- vermillion border
Why do lips require constant moistening to prevent cracking?
- lack sweat and sebaceous glands
What is the salivary glands role in digestion?
- moistening the food to create bolus for swallowing (deglutition)
What assists the oral cavity in mastication?
- lips
- tongue
- salivary glands
_____ non - keratinized mucosa found on inner cheeks, floor of mouth, inferior surface of tongue and soft palate
- lining mucosa
What does non-keratinized mean?
- lacks a stratum corneum
______ present in areas of high abrasion, eg gingiva (gums) and hard palate
- masticatory mucosa
IS the masticatory mucosa keratinized?
Yes or
parakeratinized
_____ is when cells of stratum corneum do not lose nuclei
- parakeratinized
What is thicker, parakeratinized or non keratinized?
- parakeratinized
Do the cells at the surface remain living in parakeratinized epithelium?
- yes
_______ mucosa is restricted to dorsal surface of tongue
- specialized mucosa
Is specialized mucosa keratinized?
- Yes
What is the tongue composed of?
- it is a muscular organ composed of interlacing skeletal muscle fibers
_____ is specialized for manipulation of food and sensation of taste
- tongue
Does the the tongue have accessory salivary glands scattered throughout the tongue musculature?
- YES
Where are the salivary glands in the tongue located?
- within lamina propria and between muscle layers
Why does the tongue have such a wide range of movement?
- the orientation of muscle fibers
what innervates the tongue?
-various cranial nerves
What nerves innervate the tongue?
- V
- VII
- IX
- X
- XII
What nerve is responsible for general sensation anterior to sulcus terminalis?
- V
What nerve is responsible for taste?
- VII
What nerve is responsible for general sensation and taste posterior to sulcus terminalis?
- IX
What nerve is responsible for taste and potentially motor?
- X
What nerve is responsible for motor function in the tongue?
- XII
What supports the tongue inferiorly?
- frenulum
_____ is a thin band of connective tissue anchoring tongue to floor of mouth
- frenulum
The anterior 2/3 of the tongue is derived from?
- ectoderm
The posterior 1/3 of the tongue is derived from?
- pharynx (mesoderm)
What separates the anterior 2/3 and post. 1/3 of the tongue?
- a groove called sulcus terminalis
What epithelium covers the tongue?
- stratified squamous epithelium
Is the epithelium of the tongue keratinized?
- only in the anterior 2/3
What shape is the sulcus terminalis?
- V shaped
What is the most numerous lingual papillae?
- filiform papillae
_____ papillae is keratinized, short bristles, distributed in parallel rows
- filiform papillae
Do filiform papillae have taste buds?
- no they are primarily tactile
( prominent in cats) reason cats tongues are so rough
What is the function of filiform papillae in carnivores?
- scrape meat off of bone
______ papillae are mushroom shaped scattered among filiform papillae
- fungiform
What papillae are located in furrows/ridges on lateral portion of tongue?
- foliate papillae
Which papillae is associated with lateral taste buds?
- foliate papillae
What papillae has taste buds in children but degenerates with age?
- foliate papillae
What papillae is associated with salivary glands (von ebner’s glands) at base of papilla?
- foliate papillae
and - circumvallate papillae
_________ papillae - row of 8-12 large dome shaped papillae?
- circumvallate papillae
What papillae is located immediately anterior to sulcus terminalis?
- circumvallate papillae
What papillae is surrounded by moat like sulcus, containing large #’s of taste buds laterally around base?
- circumvallate papillae
Where are taste buds located in humans?
- on papilae of tongue (except filliform)
Where else are taste buds located?
- over palate, pharynx, and epiglottis
What is responsible for change in taste with age?
- taste buds degenerate past age 45
Taste buds
- consists of up to 20-30 spindle shaped central taste cells (= gustatory cells) containing terminal taste hairs
____ project from surface of cell into a central taste pore
- taste hairs
What covers taste hairs
- glycoprotein coat
What surrounds taste hairs?
- sustentacular cells and basal cells
Are taste cells continuously lost and replaced?
- YES
Why do you have decreased sense of taste when you burn mouth?
- you have burned off taste cells that need to regrow
What are the four basic tastes
- sweet, sour, bitter and salty
Do taste cells contain receptors for multiple tastes?
- no but taste buds contain a mixture of taste cells
What papillae do bitter taste receptors concentrate on?
- circumvallate
what acts a carrier medium and stimulates taste hairs?
- saliva
What is the fifth taste that was recently discovered?
- unami (savory)
____ detects certain amino acids including glutamate, aspartate, which is characteristic of asparagus, tomatoes, beef, cheese, and MSG
- unami (savory)
What papillae is umami associated with?
- circumvallate
IS there a genetic basis for taste?
- Yes
How do you taste for taste?
- PTC paper
- Tasters = bitter
- Non tasters = nothing
What is the decreased ability to detect taste?
- hypogeusia
What is the condition where taste buds are totally absent?
- Type I familial dysautonomia
Recent evidence for 6th taste for fat
- True
____ is underlying mucosa in caudal 1/3 and is a mass of lymphoid tissue
- lingual tonsil
What do the palatine, pharyngeal, and lingual tonsil make up?
- ring referred to as Waldeyers ring
what is the function of Waldeyers ring?
- to protect respiratory and digestive tract
______ is an extension of posterior free margin of soft palate
- Uvula
what is the central core of the uvula made up of?
- skeletal muscle
What covers the uvula?
- lining mucosa with large numbers of. submucosal (palatine) glands
Does the uvula prevent food from entering nasal cavity during swallowing?
- probably not because the uvula is a single midline structure and the openings to the nasopharynx are paired and lateral
What are the three major pairs of salivary glands?
- parotid
- submandibular
- sublingual
What is the largest gland that is located on the cheeks and primarily serous?
- parotid
_____ opens within vestibule, opposite upper 2nd molar
- parotid duct/stenson’s duct