Anatomical variant of the mental nerve and its foramen

The mental nerve is a sensory nerve that supplies the lower lip, chin, and mandibular labial gingiva. Very few variants of this nerve have been described in the literature. We describe a case in which a patient who was operated for fracture of the mandible, was found to have two mental foramina with...

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Main Authors: Poornima Ravi, P Elavenil, Sagnik Sarkar, Krishnakumar V. B Raja
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2017-01-01
Series:SRM Journal of Research in Dental Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.srmjrds.in/article.asp?issn=0976-433X;year=2017;volume=8;issue=2;spage=85;epage=87;aulast=Ravi