The Hard Tissues

Question 1

What is the inferior alveolar alveolar nerve block also called

Answer 1

The inferior dental block

Question 2

When looking at the mandible laterally what can we see posteriorly?

Answer 2

The ramus

Question 3

When looking at the mandible laterally what can we see anteriorly?

Answer 3

The body

Question 4

How many projections does the ramus have?

Answer 4

2
The coronoid process (anterior)
The condylar process (posterior)

Question 5

What is attached to the coronoid muscle?

Answer 5

The Temporalis muscle

Question 6

What does the condylar process contribute to?

Answer 6

The temporomandibular joint

Question 7

What is the concavity between the two processes called?

Answer 7

The mandibular (or sigmoid) notch

Question 8

Where is there a concavity on the coronoid process and what is it called?

Answer 8

The anterior surface the concavity is called the coronoid notch

Question 9

What can we see on the medial surface of the ramus?

Answer 9

The mandibular foramen

Question 10

What passes through the mandibular foramen?

Answer 10

The inferior alveolar nerve, artery and vein pass through this opening

Question 11

What partially covers the foramen?

Answer 11

A small projection of bone called the lingula

Question 12

What attaches to The lingula?

Answer 12

the sphenomandibular ligament

Question 13

What is the sphenomandibular ligament?

Answer 13

An accessory ligament of the TMJ

Question 14

What is the groove that begins at the inferior margin of the mandibular foramen called?

Answer 14

The mylohyoid groove

Question 15

What does the mylohyoid groove contain?

Answer 15

mylohyoid nerve and vessels

Question 16

What is found superior to the mylohyoid groove?

Answer 16

Prominent mylohyoid line

Question 17

What attaches to the mylohyoid line?

Answer 17

The mylohyoid muscle, which fuses with its opposite number in the mid-line to form a muscular sheet that delineates the floor of the mouth

Question 18

Where does the mylohyoid muscle receive its motor supply?

Answer 18

The mylohyoid nerve which is a branch of the inferior alveolar nerve

Question 19

What can the mylohyoid nerve also provide in some people?

Answer 19

Can provide an accessory sensory supply to some of the teeth in certain individuals.

Question 20

What is the foramen on the external surface of the mandible called?

Answer 20

The mental foramen

It lies approximately between the apices of the two premolar teeth

Question 21

What passes through the mental foramen?

Answer 21

The mental nerve

Question 22

Describe the mental nerve

Answer 22

It is one of the terminal branches of the inferior alveolar nerves

Question 23

What are the 2 terminal branches of the inferior alveolar nerve?

Answer 23

The mental nerve

The incisive nerve

Question 24

Where does the incisive nerve travel?

Answer 24

Continues anteriorly inside the mandible following the branching off of the mental nerve

Question 25

What do the incisive nerves supply?

Answer 25

The anterior teeth

Question 26

How many bones make up the mandible?

Answer 26

One single bone

Question 27

How many bones make up the maxilla

Answer 27

2 | The left and right maxillae

Question 28

What are the right and left has of the hard palate joined by?

Answer 28

The intermaxillary suture

Question 29

What is the foramen which lies in the midline just behind the incisor teeth called?

Answer 29

The incisive foramen

Question 30

What nerve passes through the incisive foramen?

Answer 30

The nasopalatine nerve

Question 31

What does the nasopalatine nerve supply?

Answer 31

The anterior part of the mucosa of the hard palate

Question 32

Describe the nasopalatine nerve

Answer 32

Iy is branch of the maxillary nerve which travels though the nasal cavity before emerging into the hard palate

Question 33

What makes up the posterior part of the hard palate?

Answer 33

The right and left palatine bones

Question 34

What is foramen lying more posteriorly on the hard palate called?

Answer 34

The greater palatine foramina

Question 35

What do the greater palatine foramina transmit?

Answer 35

The greater palatine nerves

Question 36

What do The greater palatine nerves supply?

Answer 36

The mucosa over the hard palate

Question 37

What supples the soft palate?

Answer 37

The lesser palatine nerves

Question 38

What are the greater and the lesser palatine nerves branches of?

Answer 38

The maxillary nerve

Question 39

What is the foramen found on the anterior aspect of the maxilla called?

Answer 39

The infraorbital foramen

Question 40

What does the infraorbital foramen transmit?

Answer 40

The infraorbital nerve

Question 41

Describe the infraorbital nerve

Answer 41

It forms when the maxillary nerve becomes once it starts to travel under the eye.

Question 42

What do the branches of the infraorbital nerve supply?

Answer 42

Supply sensation to a large area on the front of the face, including parts of the cheek, the side of the nose and the upper lip.

Question 43

If you could follow the infraorbital nerve back through its foramen what would you find?

Answer 43

That it lies in a canal called the infraorbital canal

Question 44

What is the difference between a canal and a groove?

Answer 44

A groove doesn't have a roof

Question 45

More posterior to the infraorbital canal where does the infraorbital nerve lie?

Answer 45

In a groove

Question 46

What branch does the infraorbital nerve give off when its in the canal an groove?

Answer 46

Anteriorly there are the anterior superior alveolar nerves

Question 47

What do the the anterior superior alveolar nerves supply?

Answer 47

The anterior teeth

Question 48

What does the maxilla contain?

Answer 48

A large maxillary sinus

Question 49

Where does the anterior super alveolar nerve travel??

Answer 49

Travels immediately under the mucosa lining this maxillary sinus

Question 50

Where do the the middle superior alveolar nerves arise from?

Answer 50

The infraorbital nerve more posteriorly that the anterior superior nerves

Question 51

Does everyone have a middle superior alveolar nerve?

Answer 51

No it is absent in a sizeable proportion of the population

Question 52

If you were to follow the infraorbital nerve even more posteriorly past the infraorbital groove what would you find?

Answer 52

a space lying immediately posterior to the maxilla called the pterygopalatine fossa

Question 53

What happens at the pterygopalatine fossa?

Answer 53

The maxillary nerve gives off the posterior superior alveolar nerves

Question 54

When does the maxillary nerve become the infraorbital nerve?

Answer 54

When it passes into the infraorbital groove

Question 55

Where do the posterior superior alveolar nerves run?

Answer 55

1. Down the posterior surface of the maxilla 2. Through the posterior superior alveolar canal 3. Then under the mucosa of the maxillary sinus before reaching the teeth

Question 56

Where is the mandibular foramen found?

Answer 56

On the medial surface of the ramus

Question 57

What is the lingula?

Answer 57

A small projection of bone that partially covers the mandibular foramen

Question 58

What does the sphenomandibular ligament attach to?

Answer 58

The lingula

Question 59

Where is the mylohyoid groove found?

Answer 59

the groove that begins at the inferior margin of the mandibular foramen

Question 60

Where is the prominent mylohyoid line found?

Answer 60

Superior to the mylohyoid groove

Question 61

Where is the mental foramen found?

Answer 61

on the external surface of the mandible It lies approximately between the apices of the two premolar teeth

Question 62

Where is the incisive foramen found?

Answer 62

The midline just behind the incisor teeth

Question 63

What supplies the anterior part of the mucosa of the hard palate?

Answer 63

The nasopalatine nerve

Question 64

What do the right and left palatine bones make up?

Answer 64

The posterior part of the hard palate

Question 65

Where are the greater palatine foramina found?

Answer 65

Found posteriorly on the hard palate

Question 66

What supplies the mucosa over the hard palate?

Answer 66

The greater palatine nerves

Question 67

The lesser palatine nerves supply what?

Answer 67

The soft palate

Question 68

What Supplies sensation to a large area on the front of the face, including parts of the cheek, the side of the nose and the upper lip?

Answer 68

The infraorbital nerve

Question 69

What lies in the infraorbital canal?

Answer 69

The infraorbital nerve before it goes through the infraorbital foramen

Question 70

What supplies anterior teeth?

Answer 70

The anterior superior alveolar nerves