BACKGROUNDThe mental foramen is an important anatomical and clinical landmark for undertaking a successful mental nerve anaesthetic block. Mental foramen has many anatomical variations in its size, shape, location and direction of the opening-which are influenced by gender, age, race, accessing technique used and degree of edentulous alveolar bone atrophy.
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