Anatom3DMylohyoid branch of inferior alveolar artery
Ramus mylohyoideus arteriae alveolaris inferioris · Čelistně-jazylková větev dolní alveolární tepny
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A small branch leaving the inferior alveolar artery just before it enters the jaw and running in a groove on the jaw's inner side.
What it does
Supplies the mylohyoid muscle, the floor of the mouth.
Keeping it well
Can bleed during lower jaw surgery or implants placed on the inner side of the jaw.
Related conditions
- Carotid artery stenosis
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Takayasu arteritis
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)