DENTAL GROSS ANATOMY: Structure List

WEEK 6 -- October 8, 2007

1. Bones:
   • Facial Skeleton
     • mandible
       • condyle
       • coronoid process
       • angle of mandible
       • mental protuberance
       • neck, ramus, body
       • oblique line
       • mylohyoid line
       • groove for mylohyoid nerve
       • lingula
       • fovea
     • maxillae
       • alveolar process
       • palatine process
     • nasal bones
     • zygomatic bones
     • palatine bones
       • horizontal plate
       • perpendicular plate
     • lacrimal bones
     • ethmoid bone
     • inferior conchae
     • vomer
   • Calvaria
     • frontal bone
     • parietal bones
     • temporal bones
       • squamous part
       • petrous (petromastoid) part
       • styloid process
       • tympanic process
       • mandibular fossa
       • groove for the posterior belly of diagastric
       • groove for the occipital artery
       • articular tubercle
       • zygomatic process
     • occipital bone
       • condyle
     • sphenoid bone
       • greater wing
       • lesser wing
       • infratemporal crest
       • spine
       • medial pterygoid plate
       • lateral pterygoid plate
       • hamulus
   
   
2. Surface Features:
   • Sutures
     • coronal
     • saggital
     • lambdoid
     • internasal
     • frontonasal
     • intermaxillary
     • metopic
   • Suture junctions
     • lambda
     • braegma
     • pterion
     • asterion
   • Other features
     • vertex
     • superciliary arch
     • frontal eminences
     • nasion
     • glabella
     • external occipital protuberance
     • nuchal lines
     • parietal eminences
     • temporal lines
     • mastoid process
     • mental protuberance
   • Regions
     • temporal fossa
     • infratemporal fossa
     • pterygopalatine fossa
     • submandibular fossa
     • sublingual fossa
     • digastric fossa
   
   
3. Foramina and notches:
   • Frontal View
     • supraorbital notch or foramen
     • infraorbital foramen
     • mental foramen
     • zygomaticofacial foramen
   • Lateral View
     • external acoustic meatus
     • mastoid foramen
     • parietal foramen
     • pterygomaxillary fissure
     • inferior orbital fissure
     • posterior superior alveolar foramina
     • zygomaticotemporal foramen
     • mandibular notch
     • notch for the facial artery
   • Basal View
     • incisive foramen
     • greater and lesser palatine foramina
     • foramen ovale
     • foramen spinosum
     • stylomastoid foramen
     • foramen lacerum
     • carotid canal
     • jugular foramen
     • foramen magnum
     • anterior condyloid (hypoglossal) canal
     • posterior condyloid canal
     • petrotympanic fissure
     • mandibular foramen