Normal Anatomy Maxilllary landmarks

Cancellous bone appears radiolucent on a radiographic image.

• True

• False

The area the black arrow is pointing to is:

• maxillary sinus

• lateral ptyerigoid plate

• orbit

• zygomatic process

Wafer-thin, curved plates of bone that extend from the lateral walls of the nasal cavity, they appear diffuse and radiopaque on a radiograph

• nasal spine

• nasal septum

• nasal conchae

• nasal stones

Radiolucent area (empty space) located above the apices of the maxillary premolars and molars,

• canal

• foramen

• fossa

• sinus

Which of these areas would appear radiolucent on a dental x-ray image?

• septum

• suture

• tubercle

• tuberosity

On a maxillary periapical image (PA), the nasal fossa will appear as a radiolucent area above the roots of the_________

• maxillary incisors

• maxillary premolars

• maxillary molars

• mandibular central

Name the area circled in red, Small ovoid or round radiolucent area located between the roots of the maxillary central incisors

• lateral fossa

• maxillary suture

• incisive papilla

• incisive foramen

The maxillary tuberosity appears a radiolucent rounded prominence posterior to the third molar region?

• true

• false

An anterior maxillary periapical (PA) will contain the nasal septum superimposed over the?

• canine

• medial palatine suture

• greater palatine foramen

• genial tubercles

the coronoid process will be seen on the __________periapical image

• maxillary incisor

• maxillary molar

• mandibluar incisor

• maxillary canine