Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Maxilla

The paired bone of the upper jaw, forming the front of the hard palate and parts of the nasal walls and orbital floors.

Key points

• Upper jaw + anterior hard palate.
• Maxillary sinus; infraorbital foramen.
• Midface fractures: malocclusion, cheek numbness.
• Maxilla: maxillary process membrane; premaxilla: frontonasal.
• Bone: type I collagen + hydroxyapatite.
• Osteoblast builds, osteocyte maintains, osteoclast resorbs.

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Written from

• Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 12, PDF pp. 1487–1488, 1501–1502, 1735
• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 10, PDF pp. 140–141
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 7, PDF pp. 121–125, 130; ch. 15, PDF p. 269

More from the head and neck

• Maxillary artery
• Maxillary nerve
• Medial pterygoid
• Medial rectus
• Medulla oblongata
• Midbrain
• Middle cerebral artery
• Muscles of facial expression
• Musculus uvulae
• Mylohyoid
• Nasal bone
• Occipital bone

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