Lingual Vascular Canals of the Mandible: Evaluation with Dental CT

Abstract

Dental CT can depict the occurrence, position, and size of the lingual vascular canals of the mandible. Radiologists should be aware of this anatomic feature and its possible implications.

Detection of the genial spinal canal in atrophic mandibles with a CBCT: a cadaver study

“…In this group, the alveolar ridge height was approximately 19.0 mm, and the GSC was approximately 12.0 mm above the mandibular edge. Similar findings were reported by Gahleitner et al 17 In the five cases where no implant-GSC contact was observed, the alveolar ridge was approximately 24.0 mm, and the GSC was closer to the mandibular edge (approximately 11.0 mm). In total, this is approximately 5.0 mm more bone in the vertical direction.…”

Bisphosphonate induced osteonecrosis of the jaws: Unravelling uncertainty in disease causality

“…The vascular injury hypothesis due to narrowing of canals penetrating the jaws may be investigated by performing multi slice computerised tomography of the mandible with orthoradial reconstructions to look for narrowing or absence of lateral lingual canals. These are small channels with a mean diameter 0.6mm9/0.2 mm that principally occur in the premolar region [22]. Microscopic inspection of the Haversian systems of removed bone should also be performed.…”

Foraminas acessórias mandibulares em tomografia computadorizada de feixe cônico

“…Em estudos realizados em cadáveres foi sugerido que o conteúdo da FLL na região de pré-molares são ramos da artéria submentual (AS), anastomose entre artéria alveolar inferior e AS, anastomose entre artéria lingual e sublingual, ramo da artéria sublingual (GAHLEITNER et al, 2001;KAWAI et al, 2006;LOUKAS et al, 2008;KATAKAMI et al, 2009;NAKAJIMA et al, 2012;). A AS é responsável, principalmente, pela irrigação sanguínea do assoalho de boca e mucosa gengival A literatura reporta alguns estudos de dissecação de cadáveres para estudo do conteúdo da FLL.…”

“…A AS é responsável, principalmente, pela irrigação sanguínea do assoalho de boca e mucosa gengival A literatura reporta alguns estudos de dissecação de cadáveres para estudo do conteúdo da FLL. (GAHLEITNER et al, 2001;KAWAI et al, 2006;TAGAYA et al, 2008;LOUKAS et al, 2008;NAKAJIMA et al, 2012). No primeiro estudo foram selecionados três cadáveres, um apresentou a FLL nas imagens de TCH.…”

“…(NEVES et al 2010;NAKAJIMA et al 2012). A localização mais comum é a região lingual de pré-molares inferiores (PMI) (GAHLEITNER et al, 2001;TAGAYA et al, 2008;KATAKAMI et al, 2009;VON ARX et al 2011).…”