TOPIC: ANATOMICAL LANDMARKS OF MAXILLARY ARCH

📌 LIMITING STRUCTURES OR PERIPHERAL STRUCTURES:

  • Labial frenum
  • Labial vestibule
  • Buccal frenum
  • Buccal vestibule
  • Hamular notch
  • Posterior palatal seal
  • Fovea palatinae

📌 SUPPORTING STRUCTURES 

✳️Primary stress-bearing area

  • Hard palate
  • Posterior lateral slopes of the residual alveolar ridge

✳️Secondary stress-bearing area

  • Rugae

✳️Relief area

  • Incisive papilla
  • Midpalatine raphe 

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