Palate and Glands 10/31/16 TEST #3

Question 1

What two bones makeup the hard palate?

Answer 1

• Maxilla

- Palatine

Question 2

What are the five muscles that deal with the palate?

Answer 2

• Levator veli palatini
• Musculus uvulae
• Palatopharyngeus
• Tensor veli palatini
• Palatoglossus

Question 3

What is the function of the palatoglossus?

Answer 3

-Narrows space and channels food

Question 4

What palate muscle is not innervated by CN X?

Answer 4

-Tensor veli palatini

Question 5

What innervates Tensor veli palatini?

Answer 5

-Pterygoid branch of V3

Question 6

What arteries serve the palate?

Answer 6

• Sphenopalatine
• Greater palatine
• Lesser palatine
• Ascending palatine
• Ascending pharyngeal

Question 7

What two arteries serve the soft palate?

Answer 7

• Ascending palatine

- Ascending pharyngeal

Question 8

What eight nerves do sensory innervation of the palatal mucosa, upper lip, cheeks, and gingiva?

Answer 8

• MSA
• PSA
• ASA
• Superior labial
• Long buccal
• Greater palatine
• Lesser palatine
• Nasopalatine

Question 9

Where do you find the sublingual gland?

Answer 9

-Beneath tongue and superior to mylohyoid

Question 10

Where do the ducts of the sublingual gland drain?

Answer 10

-Into the floor of mouth via sublingual caruncle

Question 11

What percentage of saliva is the sublingual gland responsible for?

Answer 11

-5%

Question 12

What innervates the sublingual gland?

Answer 12

Chorda tympani VII

Question 13

What is the vascular supply of the sublingual gland?

Answer 13

-Sublingual artery branch of lingual artery

Question 14

T/F

You have 1000s of minor salivary glands throughout lips ,buccal mucosa, and oral cavity

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Where do you find the submandibular gland?

Answer 15

-Below massester

Question 16

What is the name of the submandibular duct?

Answer 16

-Warhtins duct

Question 17

Where does the submandibular duct drain?

Answer 17

-Floor of mouth via sublingual caruncle

Question 18

What innervates the submandibular gland?

Answer 18

Chorda tympani

Question 19

What is the vascular supply to the submandibular gland?

Answer 19

-Facial artery

Question 20

What percentage of saliva is the submandibular gland responsible for producing?

Answer 20

-70%

Question 21

Where do you find the parotid gland?

Answer 21

-Anterior and inferior to the ear

Question 22

What is the name of the parotid duct?

Answer 22

-Stensens duct

Question 23

Where does the parotid duct drain?

Answer 23

-Rear/upper area

Question 24

What is the innervation of the parotid duct?

Answer 24

-CN IX via lesser petrosal via auricotemporal nerve

Question 25

What percentage of saliva is the parotid gland responsible for?

Answer 25

-20%

Question 26

What gland is mainly responsible for the breakdown of starch?

Answer 26

-Parotid

Question 27

What is the vascular supply of the parotid gland?

Answer 27

-Transverse facial branches of superficial temporal

Question 28

If the parotid gland gets a nerve block what do you see?

Answer 28

-Temporary bells palsy

Question 29

T/F

Stones can occur in the glands causing pain and swelling

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Are bacterial infections found on one side or both sides typically?

Answer 30

one side

Question 31

Are viral infections found on one side or both sides typically?

Answer 31

Both sides

Question 32

What is an example of Sjogren’s syndrome?

Answer 32

-Autoimmune with dry mouth and eyes