NELDA: Dental Anatomy & Morphology
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Palatine tonsils (tonsils) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔tonsils Found at the side of the
throat opposite the back of the tongue
Tonsillar pillars - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The vertical folds of tissue that lie in front
of and behind the palatine tonsils in the lateral throat wall
Vestibule - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Space between the lips or cheeks and the teeth
oral cavity proper - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The area of the oral cavity bounded
anteriorly and laterally by the teeth and posteriorly by the palatine tonsils
Vermilion Zone - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Red part of the lip where the lip mucosa
meets the skin
Philtrum - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Small depression at the midline of the upper lip
Labia - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔lips
Buccal - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔cheek
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, Diastema - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Any spacing between teeth in the same arch
Retromolar pad - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Pad of tissue behind the mandibular third
molars found in retromolar triangle
Fordyce granules - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Misplaced sebaceous glands in the lips,
cheek, or retromolar pad area
exostoses - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Small extra growths of bone on a bone surface;
usually seen on the buccal cortical plate
Rugae - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Small ridges of tissue extending laterally across
the anterior of the hard palate
Incisive papilla - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Small, rounded, oblong mound of tissue
directly behind or lingual to the maxillary central incisors and lying over the
incisive foramen
torus palatinus (palatine torus) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Large bony growth in the
hard palate
Uvula - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Small hanging fold of tissue in back of the soft
palate
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Palatine tonsils (tonsils) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔tonsils Found at the side of the
throat opposite the back of the tongue
Tonsillar pillars - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The vertical folds of tissue that lie in front
of and behind the palatine tonsils in the lateral throat wall
Vestibule - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Space between the lips or cheeks and the teeth
oral cavity proper - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The area of the oral cavity bounded
anteriorly and laterally by the teeth and posteriorly by the palatine tonsils
Vermilion Zone - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Red part of the lip where the lip mucosa
meets the skin
Philtrum - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Small depression at the midline of the upper lip
Labia - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔lips
Buccal - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔cheek
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, Diastema - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Any spacing between teeth in the same arch
Retromolar pad - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Pad of tissue behind the mandibular third
molars found in retromolar triangle
Fordyce granules - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Misplaced sebaceous glands in the lips,
cheek, or retromolar pad area
exostoses - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Small extra growths of bone on a bone surface;
usually seen on the buccal cortical plate
Rugae - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Small ridges of tissue extending laterally across
the anterior of the hard palate
Incisive papilla - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Small, rounded, oblong mound of tissue
directly behind or lingual to the maxillary central incisors and lying over the
incisive foramen
torus palatinus (palatine torus) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Large bony growth in the
hard palate
Uvula - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Small hanging fold of tissue in back of the soft
palate
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