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Maxilla: labelled teaching diagram. Original labels and colours retained.
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Maxilla: labelled teaching diagram. Original labels and colours retained.

Image: OpenStax College / university open textbook · Source / original · CC BY 4.0

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Maxilla

Skull bones

Maxilla

STRUCTURE & FUNCTION

Understand what you see.

Supports upper teeth and contributes to the orbit, nasal cavity and hard palate.

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01 / IDENTIFICATION

How to recognise it.

  1. A paired bone forming the upper jaw
  2. Alveolar process carries upper teeth
  3. Palatine processes form the anterior major portion of the hard palate
02 / KEY STRUCTURES

Point them out.

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Related features & study points (1)

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  • Palatine process
03 / VIVA PRACTICE

Think first. Then reveal.

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Examiner-style prompts: identify the structure, explain its relations, then answer the applied follow-up. These are revision questions, not authenticated past papers.

01How would you identify maxilla?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

A paired bone forming the upper jaw. Alveolar process carries upper teeth. Palatine processes form the anterior major portion of the hard palate.

02Which nerve emerges through the infraorbital foramen?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

The infraorbital nerve, a continuation of the maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve (V2).

03Which parts form the hard palate?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Palatine processes of maxillae anteriorly and horizontal plates of palatine bones posteriorly.

04Why can upper posterior teeth be relevant to maxillary sinus anatomy?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Their roots may lie close to the sinus floor; the relationship varies between individuals.

05Which maxillary process supports the teeth?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

The alveolar process.

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