Facial Bones Anatomy
Name the largest immovable bone in the skull.
What is the maxilla?
What is another name for the eardrum?
What is the tympanic membrane?
What facial bone projection is the best for facial bones?
What is a parietoacanthial projection (Waters Method)?
When x-raying lateral nasal bones, what kVp range do you use?
What is 65 to 69 kVp?
This bone is plow shaped and bleeds with trauma.
What is the vomer bone?
What is another name for the incus?
What is the anvil?
When positioning for Caldwell Facial Bones, where does the CR exit?
What is the nasion (15 degrees caudad to exit at the nasion)?
What is the name of the method when you are going to x-ray the nasal bones but you place the nose and chin against the IR?
What is the waters method?
What is the name of the method that is associated with a three-point landing?
What is the Rhese method?
What part of the mandible cannot be palpated and serves as a muscle attachment?
What is the Coronoid process?
The organs of hearing and equilibrium are found within the petrous portion of the __________ bone.
What is the temporal bone?
When positioning for modified waters facial bones, do you use the MML or the LML?
What is the LML?
What is the name of the method when you have the IR perpendicular to the GAL for nasal bones?
What is superoinferior tangential axial projection?
What is the name of the TMJ method that uses a CR angle of 15 degrees caudad?
What is a modified law method?
The optic foramina allows for the passage of what cranial nerve?
What is the optic nerve CN II?
Which middle ear ossicle is the most medial?
What is the stapes or stirrup?
When positioning for a Caldwell method facial bones, where will the petrous ridges be projected on the image?
What is in the lower 1/3rd of the orbits?
What is the maximal angle used on an axiolateral or axiolateral oblique of the mandible?
What is 25 degrees?
What is the name of the TMJ method that places the patient in a true lateral?
What is the Schuller method?
Name the two bones that form the nasal septum.
What are the ethmoid and vomer bones?
The opening between the epitympanic recess and the mastoid portion of the temporal bone is called:
What is the aditus?
When positioning for a waters method facial bones, where will the petrous ridges be projected on the image?
What is just inferior to the floor of the maxillary sinuses?
What mandible image is taken to show the entire mandible?
What is the SMV of the mandible?
What is the name of the TMJ method that elongates the mandibular condyles?
What is the Schuller method?