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MANDIBLE - ANATOMICAL FEATURES

• body = horizontal portion
  

• external surface
  

• ridge = symphysis
• mental protuberance
• mental tubercle
• incisive fossa
• mental foramen
• external oblique line = external oblique ridge
  

• internal surface
  

• ±foramen/furrow = symphysis
• mental spines
• digastric fossa
  
• mylohyoid line
• sublingual fossa
• submandibular fossa = submaxillary fossa
  

• alveolar process

• superior border = alveolar border
  

• teeth

• central incisor
• lateral incisor
• canine
• first pre-molar = first bicuspid
• second pre-molar = second bicuspid
• first molar
• second molar
• third molar
  

• inferior border
  

• groove for facial artery

• contents

• mandibular canal
• mandibular incisive canal
  

• ramus = perpendicular portion

• lateral surface

• medial surface

• mandibular foramen

• ridge
  

• lingula of the mandible

• notch
  

• mylohyoid groove

• rough surface for medial pterygoid muscle = internal pterygoid muscle
• internal oblique line = internal oblique ridge
  

• retromolar fossa

• retromolar triangle

• contents

• mandibular canal
• canals to cavities for incisor teeth

• anterior border

• external oblique line = external oblique ridge

• upper border = superior border
  

• coronoid process
• mandibular notch
• condyloid process
  

• posterior border
• angle of the mandible
• lower border = inferior border
  

• coronoid process
  

• anterior border
• posterior border = anterior boundary of mandibular notch
• lateral surface
  

• medial surface
  

• temporal crest
  

• condyloid process
  

• condyle = head
  

• articular surface

• neck

• posterior surface

• anterior surface

• pterygoid fovea
  

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