Vestibule and cavity of the mouth (dave's notes)

Question 1

Where does the parotid duct open?

Answer 1

Opposite the second upper molar tooth

Question 2

What nerve supplies most of the mucous membrane?

Answer 2

The buccal branch of the mandibular nerve

Question 3

What glands other than the parotid duct open in to the oral vestibule?

Answer 3

There are 4-5 small mucous glands on the outer surface of buccinator and these pierce the muscle to reach the mucous membrane of the vestibule (plus multiple others)

Question 4

Teeth

Answer 4

32 of them….

Question 5

What contributes to the hard palate?

Answer 5

The hard palate is made up of the palatal processes of the maxilla and the horizontal plate of the palatine bone.

Question 6

What lies between the palatine bone and maxilla?

Answer 6

The greater palatine foramen

Question 7

What lines the hard palate? How is this attached to the bone?

Answer 7

Mucous membrane is strongly adherent to the periosteum which together can be stripped from the bone.

Question 8

What is the blood supply to the hard palate? How does it reach the hard palate?

Answer 8

the greater palatine artery, via the greater palatine foramen

Question 9

What is the lymphatic drainage of the hard palate?

Answer 9

Retropharyngeal and deep cervical nodes