🔹 Sublingual crescent is the crescent-shaped area on the anterior floor of the mouth formed by the lingual wall of the mandible and the adjacent sublingual fold. It is the area of the anterior alveololingual sulcus.
🔹 Retromolar pad consists of glandular tissues and the fibres of temporalis posteriorly, buccinator laterally and pterygomandibular raphe and superior constrictor medially. It should be covered in the denture to aid in posterior seal of the lower denture.
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