Inferior alveolar artery

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Arteries of the head

The inferior alveolar artery ("lower dental artery ") is an artery in the head. It arises from the first section of the maxillary artery ( maxillary artery ).

The inferior alveolar artery first releases a ramus mylohyoid, which branches in the floor of the mouth under the mylohyoid muscle . Then it pulls through the mandibular foramen (lower jaw hole) of the lower jaw into the mandibular canal within this bone, in which it pulls together with the vein and nerve of the same name ( inferior alveolar nerve ) towards the chin. Here the artery sends fine branches to the lower jaw teeth and the lower jaw itself. At the mental foramen (chin hole) one of the two end branches, the ramus mentalis , emerges from the lower jaw and supplies the chin region. The second end branch pulls within the bone towards the incisors.

literature

  • Uwe Gille: Cardiovascular and immune system, Angiologia. In: Franz-Viktor Salomon, Hans Geyer, Uwe Gille (Ed.): Anatomy for veterinary medicine. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Enke, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8304-1075-1 , pp. 404-463.