Anatomy of Head & Neck
- Course Code :
ANA701
- Level :
Postgraduate
- Course Hours :
2.00
Hours
- Entry year :
2024/2025
- Department :
Faculty of Oral & Dental Medicine
Aim of the course
Course Contents
• Skull: General and particular features: - Bones forming the skull ( name, position and parts of each)- Major foramina and fissures with structures passing, clinical points as commonly fractured areas: (3 hours)
• Mandible: Parts, features, muscles and ligaments attached to it, nerves, vessels and glands related. Foramina in the mandible with passing structures. Common sites of fracture.: (1 hour).
• Scalp: definition, layers, nerve, blood supply and lymph drainage as well as significant clinical points. (1 hour)
• Face: muscles of facial expression, motor and sensory nerve supply of face, blood supply and lymph drainage. Description of dangerous area of face. (2 hours)
• Facial nerve: Course, branches and results of extracranial injury. (1 hour)
• Parotid gland: site, extension, parts, capsule, relations, blood supply, nerve supply effect of its inflammation on embedded structures. (1 hour)
• Temporal, inratempral and pterygoplatine fossae: Boundaries and contents. Muscles of mastication, mandibular nerve, maxillary nerve, maxillary artery, pterygoid venous plexus and sphenopalatine ganglion. (3 hours)
• Temporomandibular joint: Type, variety, articular bones, capsule, ligaments, intra-capsular disc, analysis of the joint movements. Dislocation: causes, site of dislocated head of mandible and how to fix it. (1 hour)
• Cranial cavity: Dural folds, dural venous sinuses, pituitary gland and intracranial course of internal carotid artery. Effects of enlargement of pituitary gland. (2 hours)
• Nasal cavity: Boundaries, parts, nasal septum, features of lateral wall and related orifices, blood and nerve supply. (2 hours)
• Paranasal sinuses: site, number, boundaries and effects of its inflammation). Relation between maxillary sinusitis and abcesses related to roots of premolar and molar teeth of upper jaw. (1 hour)
• Oral cavity: parts, Boundaries, contents, nerve and blood supply. (1 hour)
• Tongue: site, shape, parts, muscles, nerve supply and blood supply. Effect of injury of its motor nerve supply. (1 hour)
• Palate: parts, soft palte (muscles, nerve and blood suppy as well as function). (1 hour)
a. Didactic Lectures: for acquisition of course knowledge, one two-hour lecture per week.
b. Practical classes: including practical demonstration on dissected specimen and radiological films in the dissecting room, one two-hour session per week.
c. Tutorial classes: 2 hours weekly before dissecting a major region and a brief discussion by the end of each practical lesson.
d. Self-Assessment: As appropriate, self-assessment questions in the form of short essay and/or MCQs.
Teaching and Learning Methods for special needs students
a) Course Notes
Available in hard copy
b) Essential Books (Text Books)
c) Recommended Books
1-Gray’s Anatomy for student
2-Cunningham’s Text Book of Anatomy
d) Scientific periodicals,bulletins,etc...