RADIOPACITIES PECULIAR

TO THE MANDIBLE
-By Apurva Marsale.
EXTERNAL OBLIQUE RIDGE
• It is continuation of the anterior border of
ramus which passes forward and downward.
• Prominent radiopaque line passes across
molar region.
• In edentulous mandible , it is delineated.
MYELOHYOID RIDGE
• Also known internal oblique ridge.
• Originate at the medial portion of ramus and
passes forward and downward over lingual
surface of mandible.
• It is attached to myelohyoid muscle and
parallel to the external oblique ridge.
MENTAL RIDGE
• It is a misnomer, it is hallmark of bisecting
angle technique.
• This are two bilateral radiopaque lines,
occasionally runs anteriorly and superiorly from
premolar area to midline where they meet.
• Its size and prominence depends on how
nearly the beams parallel to surface.
• In exaggerated negative angles this artifacts
are produced.
GENIAL TUBERCLE
• Its surrounds the lingual foramen, which is
on internal surface of mandible at symphysis
midway between superior and inferior
borders.
 SUPERIMPOSED RADIOPACITIES
MINERALIZED TISSUE
SOFT TISSUE SHADOW
SHADOW

Radiopaque outline of hyoid bone of body of

Due to thickness and density
mandible

Outline of lips
Calcified lymph nodes or arteries

Tip of the nose and nasal cartilage Cricoid cartilage

 RADIOLUCENCIES
PECULIAR TO MAXILLA
 INTERMAXILLARY SUTURE
• It is between right and left maxillary bones.
• It is thin vertical radiolucency between central
cortical bone( TWO RADIOPAQUE LINES)
• This suture later get fused.
 INCISIVE FORAMEN
• Also known as incisive fossa or anterior
palatine foremen.
• It is usually round , oval, diamond shaped or
heart shaped.
• There is no uniformity in size shape and
position
 NASAL CAVITY/NASAL FOSSA
• It is inferior aspect of nasal cavity seen in
IOPA of incisor or canine region.
• It is separated by nasal septum which appears
radiopaque.
 NARIS
• It is an image of nose sometimes projected
over the image of alveolar bone in IOPA.
• It results in impression of increased bone
density due to superimposition.
• It may be misinterpreted as periapical
pathosis.
 NASOLACRIMAL DUCT/CANAL
• It is usually enclosed in a tube between the
cortical bone seldom appears on the
radiograph
On the well
centered radiograph image of each duct is
usually at the junction of radiopaque lines
representing the maxillary sinus and the nasal
fossa.
 MAXILLARY SINUS
• It is on each side appears as well defined
radiolucency with thin , sharp radiopaque
borders
• Radiopacity may be crisscrossed by one or
more radiopaque lines that represents the bony
septa appearing to subdivide the sinus.
• It occurs bilaterally over the molar ,premolar
and may vary in anteroposterior extent from
tuberosity to canine root or even lateral incisor
root.
GREATER/MAJOR PALATINE FORAMEN
• Sometimes it can be identified on each side as
a round to oval ill defined radiolucency
between or over maxillary second or third
molars.
 RADIOPACITIES COMMON TO BOTH THE
JAWS
• Teeth
• Bone- Cancellous bone and Cortical plate
• Lamina dura
• Alveolar process