UNLABELLED Knowledge of the position of the mental foramen is important both when administering regional anesthesia and performing periapical surgery in the mandible. Although it is often possible to identify the mental foramen by palpation and radiographically, knowing the normal range of possible locations is essential. Standard anatomic texts have data collected from dried skulls, but often ...

The ramus of mandible presents on its medial surface a little above its centre an irregular foramen called the mandibular foramen. This foramen is guarded by a thin sharp tongue shaped projection in its proximity called the lingula. This foramen transmits the inferior alveolar nerve and the corresponding artery to the mandibular canal (Grays) [1]. Here in , the nerve supplies the pulps of all t...

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Prerna Gupta, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Integral Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Lucknow, U.P. India. Contact No: +919451793415, +919721504474. E-Mail: [email protected] 1 PG Student, Department of Anatomy, Integral Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Lucknow, U.P. India. *2 Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, I...

Background. The retromolar canal (RMC) is an anatomical variation that can cause complications in dental procedures. Method. The RMC was evaluated according to age, sex, and presence of accessory mandibular canal and accessory mental foramen, on both sides in 500 panoramic radiographs, belonging to individuals at the age of 7 to 20 years. The associations of interest were studied through Fisher...

Objectives Adequate knowledge about canal anatomy is necessary for clinicians to prevent any damage to the periodontium. The aim of this study was to evaluate the canal and apical complexities of the mandibular first and second premolars in an Iranian population. Methods One-hundred mandibular first (n=50) and second (n=50) premolars were collected. After access cavity preparation, 2% methylen...

A panoramic radiographic study was carried out on 404 dentate Saudi Arabians, to locate positions of the mental foramen. Results show that 83.7% of the mental foramen locations occurred in the interdental space between the mandibular premolars and apical to the mandibular second premolar. 9.35% occurred posterior to the mandibular second premolar, and 6.95% occurred apical/anterior to the mandi...

Accessory nerve meningiomas are exceedingly rare. We present a case of a nine-year-old patient with neurofibromatosis type 2 who had radiologic evidence of spinal cord compression from an upper cervical/foramen magnum lesion. He was asymptomatic from this lesion, but it progressed in size. The tumor was resected and histologic investigation revealed frequent tight whorls and psammoma bodies con...

Background: The position of the mental foramen is critical for surgery and local anesthesia. Objectives: This study was conducted to assess the position of the mental foramen and its relationship to age in a selected Iranian population. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study. Three hundred panoramic radiographs were assessed. Three variables were assessed for each r...

Information on the knowledge of the mental foramen is important in clinical dentistry. The present study was undertaken to determine the most common position of mental foramen in randomly selected Indian population. Total 204 panoramic radiographs were evaluated, among them 184 were studied in terms of site, gender differences, symmetry of location, shape, distance from midline and continuity o...