Week 2

Question 1

What makes up the hard palate?

Answer 1

Maxilla and Palatine

Question 2

Which is more anterior, hard palate or soft palate?

Answer 2

Hard palate

Question 3

Three different parts of the pharynx from superior to inferior?

Answer 3

Nasopharynx
Orophayrnx
Laryngopharynx

Question 4

What makes up the nasal septum?

Answer 4

Vomer

Perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone

Question 5

What passes through the cribriform plate?

Answer 5

Olfactory nerve filaments

Question 6

Within the nose, there are three structures and three spaces. What are they?

Answer 6

Superior turbinate, superior meatus
Middle turbinate, middle meatus
Inferior turbinate, inferior meatus

Question 7

Space above the superior turbinate?

Answer 7

Spheno-ethmoidal recess

Question 8

The superior and middle turbinate are part of which bone? What about the inferior turbinate?

Answer 8

Ethmoid bone. Inferior turbinate is its own bone.

Question 9

What is the area of anterior blood supply to nose where epistaxis often occurs?

Answer 9

Kiesselbach’s plexus

Question 10

What drains into the: 
Spheno-ethmoidal recess
Superior turbinate
Middle turbinate
Inferior turbinate

Answer 10

Spheno-ethmoidal recess: Sphenoid sinus
Superior turbinate: Posterior ethmoidal air cells
Middle turbinate: Frontal sinus, maxillary sinus, anterior and middle ethmoidal air cells
Inferior turbinate: Nasolacrimnal duct

Question 11

Two important structures in the nasopharynx

Answer 11

1. Opening of eustachian tube, salpingopharyngeus muscle

2. Adenoids

Question 12

Important areas on the mandible/TMJ

Answer 12

Condylar process (posterior)
Coronoid (anterior)
Angle of mandible 
Mental foramen 
Mental protuberance

Question 13

How many incisors, canines and molars in an adult?

Answer 13

Incisors: 8
Canines: 4
Pre-molars: 8
Molars: 12

Question 14

Muscles of mastication?

Answer 14

Temporal
Masseter
Lateral Pterygoid
Medial Pterygoid

Question 15

What innervates the muscles of mastication?

Answer 15

V3 branch of the trigeminal nerve

Question 16

Lingual nerve and Inferior alveolar nerve, which enters into the mandible?

Answer 16

Inferior alveolar nerve. They’re pretty closely associated.

Question 17

Foramen caecum significance?

Answer 17

Primitive tract between cranial fossa and nasal space. Failure of thyroglossal duct to close can cause thyroglossal cyst.

Question 18

4 different kinds of tastebuds and their relative position on the tongue.

Answer 18

Filiform - anterior
Foliate - anterior
Fungiform - lateral
Vallate - posterior

Question 19

Innervation of the tongue

Answer 19

Anterior 2/3: V3 branch of the trigeminal nerve

Posterior 1/3: glossopharyngeal

Question 20

Submandibular gland opens into?

Answer 20

Sublingual caruncles

Question 21

Sublingual gland opens into?

Answer 21

Sublingual folds of floor of the mouth

Question 22

Radiology image of the teeth known as?

Answer 22

Orthopantomogram

Question 23

Imaging of salivary ducts?

Answer 23

Sialogram

Question 24

What lies superiorly, the larynx or pharynx? On that same note, the false vocal cords and the true vocal cords?

Answer 24

Pharynx superior

False vocal cords superior

Question 25

Three layers of pharyngeal muscles?

Answer 25

Superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle
Middle pharyngeal constrictor muscle
Inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle