Since I just finished a series of anatomy post of canals I find it fitting to now move onto foramina. 🙂 I’ve already covered a few in the past; the lingual foramen and the mental foramen. So I will finish off the mandible with today’s post of the mandibular foramen. […]
It’s time for the next canal: the nasopalatine canal. This canal may also be referred to as the incisive canal. It is seen on both intraoral radiographs and extraoral radiographs. The nasopalatine canal presents as a vertical radiolucent band between the roots of the maxillary central incisors superiorly to the […]
It’s another foramen in the mandible. While there are multiple lingual foramina in the mandible, the most commonly seen one is in the anterior mandible on the midline. It appears as a round radiolucent entity with a thin to thick corticated border. It may be single or multiple (up to […]
