Lateral Cephalometric Skull Anatomy – Part VI


This is the final post and it will cover soft tissue anatomy seen on lateral cephalometric skull radiographs.

lateral skull radiograph soft tissue anatomy with animations

Glabella (yellow dotted arrow)

Nasion (white solid arrow)

Pronasale (yellow solid arrow)

Subnasale (black dotted arrow)

Labrale superius (turquoise dotted arrow)

Stomion (green solid arrow)

Labrale inferius (turquoise solid arrow)

Gnathion (white dotted arrow)

the cheek line (vertical green lines)

Alare (curved pink line anterior to the cheek line)

lateral cephalometric skull anatomy maxillaThat’s all for lateral cephalometric skull anatomy. Thanks and enjoy!