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- Title
Clinical significance of the supplementary innervation of the mandibular teeth: a dissection study of the transverse cervical (cutaneus colli) nerve.
- Authors
Rizzolo, Roelf J. Cruz; Madeira, Miguel C.; Bernaba, Jorge Mema; de Freitas, Valdemar
- Abstract
The article focuses on a study carried out to provide an account of the location of the terminal branches of the transverse cervical (cutaneus colli) nerve. It mentions that it was demonstrated the mylohyoid nerve may enter the mandible through retromental foramina to supply the pulps of the incisors, and this supplementary innervation could be responsible for the occasional failure of inferior alveolar injections to produce deep anesthesia in the mandibular premolar and molar region. According to the study based on the bilateral dissection of 30 adult cadavers, the transverse cervical nerve arises from the cervical plexus and takes superficial path after bending around the posterior border of the sternocleidomastoid muscle near its middle.
- Subjects
INNERVATION; NERVE endings; NERVES; INCISORS; DENTAL anesthesia; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID muscle; MOLARS; DENTAL pulp; DENTISTRY
- Publication
Quintessence International, 1988, Vol 19, Issue 2, p167
- ISSN
0033-6572
- Publication type
Article