Mucosa
Dorsum of the tongue.
What is specialized mucosa?
The oral mucosa appears white.
What is keratinized?
Eating is associated with this mucosa.
What is Masticatory Mucosa?
Cells that attach gingiva to the tooth.
What is the attachment epithelium?
Thickest mucosa.
What is palatal mucosa?
The gingiva and hard palatal tissue.
What is masticatory mucosa?
The oral epithelium has cells that are dying.
What is para-keratinized?
Two gingival groups.
What is free and attached gingiva?
Gingiva on bone.
What is attached gingiva?
Connective tissue ridges and epithelial pegs.
What are Rete Pegs?
Areas of oral mucosa such as the buccal mucosa.
What is lining mucosa?
The oral epithelium has fairly health cells.
What is non-keratinized?
It's function is to prevent food impaction underneath the contact area.
What is the Interdental Papilla?
One of the First areas to become periodontally involved.
What is the interdental papilla?
Sebaceous glands.
What are Fordyce spots?
Area posterior to the tonsils.
What is pharyngeal mucosa?
This mucosa is movable and non-keratinized.
What is lining mucosa?
Non-keratinized area under the contact.
What is the col?
A dimpled appearance.
What is stippled?
Blister like lesion.
What is a mucocele?
Oral mucosa has an arrangement of this type of epithelium.
What is stratified squamous?
Cells in Keratinized tissue.
What are Stratum Corneum/Stratum Granulosum?
The V-shaped shallow groove with an average depth of 2mm around the tooth.
What is the sulcus?
Thin epithelium and underlying blood vessels.
What is alveolar mucosa?
Connective tissue beneath the mucosa.
What is submucosa?