Anatomy Of Tongue And Floor Of Mouth

Cancer of the floor of mouth accounts for 28 35 percent of all mouth cancers.

Anatomy of tongue and floor of mouth. The nasopharynx starts behind the nose and lies above the oropharynx located at the very back of your mouth. Brain and language 21 335 350 1984 soft tissue anatomy of the tongue and floor of the mouth. The bottom of your mouth located under your tongue is called the floor. Oral endotracheal intubation median submental retrogenial approach j oral maxillofac surgery 2002 vol 60.

Additionally it carries specialized fibers that allow taste signals to be sent between the tongue and the brain. Men are diagnosed with floor of mouth cancer three to four times more often than women. It may be involved in a wide range of pathologic processes some of which are unique to the region. It supplies feeling to the floor of your mouth and the front two thirds of the tongue.

Injury to the lingual nerve is most often caused by oral surgery or dental procedures which can cause considerable pain and other problems. The base of the tongue refers to the postsulcal part that forms the ventral wall of the oropharynx while the root of the tongue refers to a part of the presulcal tongue that is attached to the floor of the oral cavity. Floor of the mouth 1. Shaukat mahmood edward lello www indiandentalacademy co m 70.

The floor of mouth is a horseshoe shaped area under the tongue between the sides of the lower jawbone the mandible. By employing submandibular transducer placement of real time sector scanners tongue anatomy and motion were continuously visualized in sagittal or coronal planes. The pharynx or throat is a tube about five inches long composed of three parts. Sonies and maureen stone national institutes of health ultrasound technology has not been used extensively in the study of normal and abnormal oral physiology and speech.

Normal ct anatomy of the tongue floor of mouth and oropharynx clinical radiology vol. The floor of the mouth is the part of the oral cavity that is located under the tongue. The nasopharynx the oropharynx and the laryngopharynx. 3 a comparative study of magnetic resonance imaging versus computed tomography for the evaluation of maxillary and mandibular tumors.

Dr nida sumra 2. Surgical anatomy of floor of the mouth www indiandentalacademy co m 69. The floor of the mouth is a small horseshoe shaped region situated beneath the movable part of the tongue and above the muscular diaphragm formed by the mylohyoid muscles and above this diaphragm is the genohyoid muscle. An ultrasound demonstration thomas h.

This article aims to discuss the development and gross anatomy of the tongue. Floor of the mouth.