Voorbeelden van mylohyoid

• Together, the paired mylohyoid muscles form a muscular floor (diaphragm) for the oral cavity (the mouth).

• It is a potential space located between the mylohyoid muscle superiorly, the platysma muscle inferiorly, under the chin in the midline.

• The mylohyoid separates the submandibular space below from the sublingual space above.

• It is situated above the deep portion of the submandibular gland, on the hyoglossus muscle, near the posterior border of the mylohyoid muscle.

• The suprahyoid muscles include digastric, stylohyoid, geniohyoid, and mylohyoid.

• This arrangement means that the apices of posterior teeth are more likely to be below the level of mylohyoid.

• The mylohyoid line is at the body while the mylohyoid groove is at the ramus.

• Label for mylohyoid nerve is at bottom center.

• The duct possesses two bends, the first at the posterior border of the mylohyoid muscle and the second near the duct orifice.

• It is a potential space, and is paired on either side, located on the superficial surface of the mylohyoid muscle between the anterior and posterior bellies of the digastric muscle.

• The anterior body is supplied by the trigeminal via the mylohyoid nerve, a branch of the inferior alveolar nerve, itself a branch of the mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve.

• Infections, especially odontogenic infections can spread from one space to the other via this communication, or alternatively penetrate the mylohyoid which is a poor barrier to the spread of infection.

• Ia is the submental triangle bound by the anterior bellies of the digastric and the mylohyoid.

• The two mylohyoid muscles arise from the mandible at the mylohyoid line, which extends from the mandibular symphysis in front to the last molar tooth behind.

• The mandibular canal, after the second dentition, is situated just above the level of the mylohyoid line; and the mental foramen occupies the position usual to it in the adult.