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Mandibular Incisive Canal

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The mandibular incisive canal is rarely addressed in textbooks but merits attention since it carries neurovascular structures to the mandibular canines and incisors. The mandibular incisive canal originates from the mandibular canal at the level of the mental foramen, and in fact, it is the continuation of the mandibular canal into the interforaminal region. Surgical damage to the mandibular incisive canal may result in neurosensory disturbances of the mandibular anterior teeth but may even lead to skin paresthesia due to a retrograde “stretching” of the mental nerve.

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  1. University of Bern School of Dental Medicine Department of Oral Surgery and Stomatology, Bern, Switzerland

    Thomas von Arx

  2. Department of Anatomy Biochemistry & Physiology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

    Scott Lozanoff

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von Arx, T., Lozanoff, S. (2017). Mandibular Incisive Canal. In: Clinical Oral Anatomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41993-0_21

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