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Mental foramen

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Mental foramen
Mandible. Outer surface. Side view. (Mental foramen visible at left.)
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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. (Mental foramen labeled at bottom right.)
Latin foramen mentale
Gray's subject #44 172
Dorlands/Elsevier f_12/12373306

The mental foramen is a foramen in the mandible.

It permits passage of the mental nerve.

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The skull from the front.

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Facial bones

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maxilla: body of maxilla: Incisive fossa | Maxillary sinus | Canine fossa | Infraorbital foramen | Anterior nasal spine | Alveolar canals | Infraorbital canal | Pterygopalatine canal
Zygomatic process | Frontal process (Agger nasi | Anterior lacrimal crest) | Alveolar process | Palatine process (Incisive foramen | Incisive canals | Foramina of Scarpa | Premaxilla | Anterior nasal spine)

lacrimal bone: Posterior lacrimal crest | Lacrimal groove

zygomatic bone: Zygomaticofacial foramen | Zygomaticotemporal foramen | Zygomaticoörbital foramina

palatine bone: Pterygopalatine fossa | Pterygoid fossa | Horizontal plate (Posterior nasal spine) | Perpendicular plate (Pterygopalatine canal | Sphenopalatine foramen | Pyramidal process)
processes (Orbital | Sphenoidal)

mandible: body (Symphysis menti, Mental foramen, Mylohyoid line) | Ramus mandibulae (Mandibular foramen, Mandibular canal, Mandibular notch)

others: nasal bone | inferior nasal conchae (maxillary process) | vomer

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