Mandibular canal
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| Bone: Mandibular canal | ||
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| The permanent teeth, viewed from the right. The external layer of bone has been partly removed and the maxillary sinus has been opened. | ||
| Gray's | subject #44 173 | |
The mandibular canal runs obliquely downward and forward in the ramus, and then horizontally forward in the body, where it is placed under the alveoli and communicates with them by small openings.
On arriving at the incisor teeth, it turns back to communicate with the mental foramen, giving off two small canals which run to the cavities containing the incisor teeth.
Carries branches of inferior alveolar nerve and artery. Is continuous with the mental foramen (opents onto front of mandible) and mandibular foramen (on medial aspect of ramus).
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