Oral Cavity, Palate, Tongue, Salivary Glands and Duct, Mandible Flashcards
What are the major functions of the oral cavity?
Digestion, communication and breathing
What are the divisions of the oral cavity?
Oral vestibule and oral cavity proper
What is the oral vestibule and where is it?
The oral vestibule is a slit-like space situated anteriorly between the teeth and the gums, and the lips and the cheeks
How does the oral vestibule communicate with the exterior?
It communicates with the exterior through the oral fissure
Where is the oral cavity proper?
This lies posterior to the oral vestibule, between the upper and lower dental arcades
What does the oral cavity proper communicate with posteriorly?
Oropharynx
What are the lips?
Mobile, musculofibrous folds surrounding the mouth
Where do the lips extend from?
They extend from the nasolabial sulci and nares superolaterally to the mentolabial sulcus inferiorly
What are the contents of the lips?
Orbicularis oris, superior and inferior labial muscles, vessels and nerves
What are the superior and inferior labial fenula?
These are fre-edged folds of mucous membrane in the midline, extending from the vestibular gingiva of the mucosa of the upper and lower ribs, respectively.
What is the arterial supply of the lips?
Superior and inferior labial arteries to the upper and lower lip, respectively. These are branches of the facial and infraorbital artery.
What is the innervation of the lips?
Superior and inferior labial branches of infraorbital nerve supplying the upper and lower lip respectively.
What are the boundaries of the buccal region?
Anteriorly by the oral and mental regions
Superiorly by the zygomatic region
Posteriorly by the zygomatic region
Inferiorly by the inferior border of the mandible
Where does the prominence of the cheeks occur?
At the junction of the zygomatic and buccal regions
What are the principle muscles of the cheeks?
Buccinators
What is the blood supply and innervation of the cheeks?
Buccal branches of maxillary a.
Buccal branches of mandibular n.
What is the difference between the gingiva proper and alveolar mucosa?
The gingiva proper is firmly attached to alveolar part of the mandible, alveolar process of maxilla and necks of teeth. It appears pink, stippled and keratinized.
The alveolar mucosa is unattached gingiva, and is normally shiny red and non-keratinizing.
What does the palate separate?
It separates the oral cavities from the nasal cavities and nasopharynx
What are the 2 regions of the palate?
The hard palate anterior, which is bony
The soft palate posteriorly, which is muscular
Which bones make up the hard palate?
Palatine process of maxilla
Horizontal plates of palatine bones
What are the foramina located in the hard palate, where are they located, and what travels through them?
Incisive fossa - midline of bony palate posterior to central incisor - nasopalatine n. and greater palatine a.
Greater palatine foramen - lateral border of bony palate - greater palatine vessels and n.
Lesser palatine foramen - posterior to greater - lesser palatine n. and vessels
What is the anterior part of the soft palate and what strengthens it?
Apnoneurotic part is strengthened by the palatine apnoneurosis, which attaches to the posterior edge of the hard palate
What is the uvula?
This is the conical process from the curved, free margin of the posteroinferior soft palate
What joins the wall of the pharynx laterally to the tongue and pharynx?
Palatoglossal and palatopharyngeal arches, respectively. These house the muscles of the same name
What is the space between the oral cavity and pharynx?
Fauces
What is the space between the palatoglossal and palatopharyngeal arches, and what is found within them?
Tonsillar sinus/fossa, housing the palatine tonsils
Which artery supplies the palate?
Greater palatine artery and lesser palatine artery (anastomoses with ascending palatine artery)
What is the venous drainage of the palate?
Pterygoid venous plexus
What is the sensory innervation of the palate?
Branches of maxillary nerve from the pterygopalatine ganglion.
Greater palatine n. supplies most of hard palate
Nasopalatine supplies anterior part of hard palate
Lesser palatine n. supplies soft palate
What is the motor innervation of the palate?
Pharyngeal plexus of nerves
What fills the floor of the oral cavity?
Muscular diaphragm
Geniohyoid muscles
Tongue
Salivary glands and ducts
What is the muscular diaphragm of the oral cavity composed of and what is its function?
Bilateral mylohyoid muscles
Provides structural support to the floor of the mouth and pulls the larynx upwards during swallowing
What is the origin and insertion of the mylohyoid muscle?
Origin: Mylohyoid line of mandible
Insertion: Mylohyoid raphe and body of hyoid
What is the origin and insertion of the geniohyoid muscle?
Origin: Inferior mental spine
Insertion: Body of hyoid
What are the parts of the tongue?
Root, body and apex
What are the 2 surfaces of the tongue?
Superior and posterior surface making up the dorsum
Inferior surface
What are the features of the dorsum of the tongue?
It has a v-shaped sulcus (sulcus terminalis), who’s angle points towards the foramen caecum. It divides the dorsum into an anterior presulcal part (2/3) and posterior postsulcul part (1/3)
It is separated into left and right parts by the median furrow, a midline groove
What are the papilla of the tongue?
vallate (circumvallate)
foliate
filiform
fungiform
Which lingual papilla contain taste buds?
vallate, foliate and fungiform
Where are the lingual papilla located?
Presulcal part of the dorsum of the tongue
Vallate - terminal sulcus
Filiform - along median furrow
Foliate - on lateral aspect of tongue
Fungiform - on dorsum
What is found on the postsulcal tongue?
There are no papillae, but there is nodules of lymphoid mass giving it an irregular appearance. These are the lingual tonsils.