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The Incisive Canal: A Comprehensive Review

The incisive canal, also known as the nasopalatine canal, is an interosseous conduit through the anterior maxilla connecting the oral and nasal cavities. Within this canal lies the nasopalatine nerve and the vascular anastomosis between the greater palatine and sphenopalatine arteries. The embryolog...

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Autores principales: Lake, Sasha, Iwanaga, Joe, Kikuta, Shogo, Oskouian, Rod J, Loukas, Marios, Tubbs, R. Shane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6166911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30280065
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3069
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author Lake, Sasha
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description The incisive canal, also known as the nasopalatine canal, is an interosseous conduit through the anterior maxilla connecting the oral and nasal cavities. Within this canal lies the nasopalatine nerve and the vascular anastomosis between the greater palatine and sphenopalatine arteries. The embryology of the canal has led to interesting theories explaining its function. Efforts have been made to describe the morphometrics of the incisive canal by radiologic evaluation across sex and ethnicities. This paper aims to review the current literature on the embryology, anatomy, and clinical relevance of the incisive canal.
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spelling pubmed-61669112018-10-02 The Incisive Canal: A Comprehensive Review Lake, Sasha Iwanaga, Joe Kikuta, Shogo Oskouian, Rod J Loukas, Marios Tubbs, R. Shane Cureus Miscellaneous The incisive canal, also known as the nasopalatine canal, is an interosseous conduit through the anterior maxilla connecting the oral and nasal cavities. Within this canal lies the nasopalatine nerve and the vascular anastomosis between the greater palatine and sphenopalatine arteries. The embryology of the canal has led to interesting theories explaining its function. Efforts have been made to describe the morphometrics of the incisive canal by radiologic evaluation across sex and ethnicities. This paper aims to review the current literature on the embryology, anatomy, and clinical relevance of the incisive canal. Cureus 2018-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6166911/ /pubmed/30280065 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3069 Text en Copyright © 2018, Lake et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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