Dental anatomy in the mouth
How are teeth attached in the mouth?
The jaws and the walls of the tooth sockets are made up of bone tissue.
This part of the periodontium is not usually visible.
The teeth are connected with the walls of the tooth sockets and anchored in the jaws by the periodontal ligament and the cementum..
What is the anatomical term for the mouth?
The mouth is an oval-shaped cavity inside the skull.
The two main functions of the mouth are eating and speaking.
Parts of the mouth include the lips, vestibule, mouth cavity, gums, teeth, hard and soft palate, tongue and salivary glands.
The mouth is also known as the oral cavity or the buccal cavity..
What is the anatomy of the mouth opening?
Your mouth is an oval-shaped opening that sits just below your nose.
It starts at your lips and ends towards your tonsils.
Your mouth is part of your digestive system and respiratory system.
Other names for your mouth include oral cavity..
What is the anatomy of the mouth teeth?
A tooth consists of two main structures: Crown.
This is the part of your tooth that you can see — the portion above your gums.
Enamel — a hard, protective substance — covers your tooth crown..
What is the anatomy of the mouth teeth?
The tooth has two anatomical parts, the crown and the root.
The crown is the top part that is exposed and visible above the gum (gingiva).
It is covered with enamel, which protects the underlying dentine..
The gingiva surrounds the teeth at the base of their crown. The alveolar ridges are trabecular bone containing sockets for the teeth. The periodontium consists of the tissues that support the teeth—the gingiva, epithelial attachment, connective tissue attachment, periodontal ligament, and alveolar bone.
The tooth has two anatomical parts, the crown and the root. The crown is the top part that is exposed and visible above the gum (gingiva). It is covered with enamel, which protects the underlying dentine. The root of a tooth descends below the gum line anchoring the tooth in the mouth.
What is the function of the oral cavity?
The content of the oral cavity determines its function
It houses the structures necessary for mastication and speech, which include the teeth, the tongue and associated structures such as the salivary glands
Most of the oral cavity functions are related to the tongue, especially the tongue’s muscular and sensory abilities
The normal anatomy of the mouth includes the oral cavity, which is composed of the hard and soft palates; the mucosa, or tissues lining the upper and lower sections of the mouth as well as the tissues lining the inner cheeks; the gingiva, or gums, surrounding the teeth; as well as the tongue, uvula, tonsils, and salivary gland openings.The oral cavity consists of soft and hard tissues. The lips, cheeks, tongue, gingivae, palate, and tonsils are the former, while the teeth are the latter. The oral cavity is bounded by the lips anteriorly, the nasopharynx posteriorly, the cheeks laterally, the tongue and sublingual tissues inferiorly, and the soft and hard palate superiorly.The mouth consists of two regions: the vestibule and the oral cavity proper. The vestibule is the area between the teeth, lips and cheeks. The oral cavity is bounded at the sides and in front by the alveolar process (containing the teeth) and at the back by the isthmus of the fauces.A normal adult mouth has 32 teeth, which (except for wisdom teeth) have erupted by about age 13: • Incisors (8 total): The middlemost four teeth on the upper and lower jaws. • Canines (4 total): The pointed teeth just outside the incisors. • Premolars (8 total): Teeth between the canines and molars.
