What Is the Mandibular Foramen?
The mandibular foramen is located in the center of the inner surface of the mandibular branch. It passes through the buccal, tongue, and inferior alveolar nerves from the front to the back. This hole leads to the mandibular canal in the mandible. [1]
Mandibular foramen
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- Chinese name
- Mandibular foramen
- Foreign name
- Mandibularforamen
- Solid
- Nerve through
- Location
- Mandible
- The mandibular foramen is located in the center of the inner surface of the mandibular branch. It passes through the buccal, tongue, and inferior alveolar nerves from the front to the back. This hole leads to the mandibular canal in the mandible. [1]
- It is located slightly behind the center of the inner surface of the mandibular branch of the mandible. The mandibular foramen are approximately equal to the jaw plane of the mandibular molars, and the positions of females and children are lower. The surrounding relationship of the mandible hole is more complicated:
- 1. There is a sharp thin bone fragment in front of it, called the mandibular tongue, which is the attachment site of the sphenoid mandibular ligament.
- 2. There is a mandibular nerve sulcus at the upper back, through which the alveolar nerve and blood vessels enter the mandibular fora
- 3. There is a mandibular protuberance synthesized from the coracoid process to the lower posterior and condylar process to the anterior and inferior confluence. Here, the mandibular nerve, lingual nerve and inferior alveolar nerve pass from here to the front, so the injection is made at the mandibular protuberance. Anesthesia can simultaneously anesthetize the above three nerves.
- 4. There is a forward groove below it, called the mandibular hyoid bone groove.
- 5. The mandibular hole leads forward to the mandibular canal.