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Inferior alveolar artery
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| Artery: Inferior alveolar artery | |
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| Plan of branches of internal maxillary artery. (Inferior alveolar labeled at bottom center.) | |
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| Plan of branches of internal maxillary artery. | |
| Latin | arteria alveolaris inferior |
| Gray's | subject #144 561 |
| Supplies | dental alveolus |
| Source | maxillary artery |
| Branches | incisor branch mental branch lingual branch mylohyoid branch |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | a_61/12153421 |
The inferior alveolar artery (inferior dental artery) is an artery of the face.
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It descends with the inferior alveolar nerve to the mandibular foramen on the medial surface of the ramus of the mandible.
It runs along the mandibular canal in the substance of the bone, accompanied by the nerve, and opposite the first premolar tooth divides into two branches, incisor and mental.
The incisor branch is continued forward beneath the incisor teeth as far as the middle line, where it anastomoses with the artery of the opposite side
The inferior alveolar artery and its incisor branch during their course through the substance of the bone give off a few twigs which are lost in the cancellous tissue, and a series of branches which correspond in number to the roots of the teeth: these enter the minute apertures at the extremities of the roots, and supply the pulp of the teeth.
The mental branch escapes with the nerve at the mental foramen, supplies the chin, and anastomoses with the submental and inferior labial arteries.
Near its origin the inferior alveolar artery gives off a lingual branch which descends with the lingual nerve and supplies the mucous membrane of the mouth.
As the inferior alveolar artery enters the foramen, it gives off a mylohyoid branch which runs in the mylohyoid groove, and ramifies on the under surface of the Mylohyoideus.
 Mandibular division of trifacial nerve, seen from the middle line. |
- Inferior+alveolar+artery at eMedicine Dictionary
- Norman/Georgetown lesson4 (infratempfossaart)
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