Oral cavity: lecture 3 Flashcards
Oral cavity consists of two parts:
- oral vestibulum
- true oral cavity
- Oral Vestibulum
- A slit like opening between lips and gums/teeth – Lips
- m orbicularis oris – Cheeks
- m buccinator, fat
– Gingiva
– Labial Frenulum
– Opening of parotid salivary gland
- True oral cavity
Situated on inside of the dental arches
* Roof- hard palate
* Gums, rugae, raphe
* tongue
* salivary gland openings (mandibular and sublingual)
* Lingual frenulum – sup. Aspect of the tongue to the floor of the mouth and on either side of it we get the openings to the sublingual salivary gland ducts (on sublingual fold)
* sublingual caruncle – where mandibular salivary glands open
* Deep lingual vein
– Osteology: Foramina, incisivum, palatina
Tongue:
- consists of a root and a body
- Ant and post part of the tongue develop from 2 separate pharyngeal arches (origins), therefore have different nerve supply
Anterior part of the tongue:
- loose, oral part
- 2/3rds of the tongue
= body of tongue - sulcus terminalis – separates ant and post part, V shaped
- foramen caecum - where V shaped groove/point of sulcus terminalis ends, it is an embryological remnant
Foramen caecum and sulcus terminalis = separation of ant and post part of tongue - median sulcus – middle of tongue
Posterior part of the tongue:
- root of tongue
- posterior 1/3rd
- lingual tonsils- embedded in lingual tissue = uneven surface
- palatine tonsils – can be removed
- Situated between two folds (mucosal folds, which are muscles which are covered with mucosa)
The glossopharyngeal fold – pharynx to tongue
Palatopharyngeal fold – soft palate to pharynx
Papillae:
- Covers tongue
- filiform – straight up and down papillae
- fungiform – mushroom shaped
- (circum)vallate – fungiform is surrounded by an extra ridge which forms a grove around it
>arranged in a v- shape anterior to sulcus terminalis - foliate – folds of tongue, just anterior to the palatopharyngeal fold
Nerve supply to tongue
– Motor supply:
* N hypoglossus (CN 12)
– Sensory supply: General sensation:
* Vagus(CNX) - Posterior part of tongue
* Glossopharyngeus (CN IX) – Posterior part of tongue
* Lingual nerve (Branch of mandibular CN (V) - ant 2/3 of tongue
Taste sensation:
* Posterior 1/3 Glossopharyngeus (CN IX)
* Anterior 2/3 Branch of facial (CN VII) via corda tympany
Bitter sensation more towards back, rest more ant.
blood supply of tongue
Lingual artery and vein
Intrinsic muscles of the tongue:
Arranged in different directions to
give mobility in all directions for speaking
Function of intrinsic muscles:
Lengthening and shortening, curling and uncurling the apex, flattening and rounding the surface
Don’t need to know intrinsic muscles – only know that these muscles are arranged in all sorts of different directions = gives mobility to the tongue
Extrinsic muscles of the tongue:
move tongue in relation to other structures in the head
- genioglossus
- hyoglossus
- styloglossus
- palatoglossus
m genioglossus
(depresses with bilateral contraction, deviates to contralateral side with unilateral contraction
- Comes from inside of chin and fans out to inf part of tongue
m hyoglossus
(depresses and shortens tongue
- Comes from inf part of tongue and attaches to hyoid bone
m styloglossus
(retracts and curls tongue
- Comes from styloid process and attaches to post, inf part of tongue
m palatoglossus
(elevates posterior tongue, depress soft palate) supplied by pharyngeal plexus (accessory nerve)
- Goes from palate to tongue (palatine tonsils just posterior to it)
Muscles of mouth floor
M mylohyoid
m geniohyoid
These muscles help to lift up and stabilise the tongue – especially the root of the tongue
M mylohyoid
- attaches to mylohyoid line on inside of mandible and hyoid bone
- Forms sling for tongue to lie on
m geniohyoid
- On top of mylohyoid mm
- Goes from inside of chin to hyoid bone
innervation of muscles surrounding tongue
– n hypoglossus XII
(All except m palato- glossus mm)
Blood supply of muscles surrounding tongue
– A. lingualis - dorsalis, profunda
- V comitantes profunda
Oral structures also supplied by branches of the
facial, lingual
and maxillary arteries (all branches from the external carotid artery)
Three groups of tonsil tissue:
- Nasopharynx
- pharyngeal tonsil (adenoids)
found at post aspect of the nasopharynx - Oropharynx
- lingual tonsil
- palatine tonsil (‘tonsils’) between palatoglossus and palatopharyngeal arches
* Waldeyer’s ring = 1st line of defence
Salivary glands
- Parotid
- Submandibular
- sublingual
- minor glands