Bones of the Face. 



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Fora 



27. Right Superior Maxillary Bone, Maxilla superior, 



from the inner side, with the articulations of the bones. 



The nasal or internal surface of the body of the superior 

 maxilla shows the opening of the ant rum of Highmore, which is 

 partly closed by the ethmoid , the inferior turbinated and the palate 

 bones ; the outer border of the nasal surface articulates with the per- 

 pendicular plate of the palate bone. The palatine process articulates at 

 its inner border with the palatine process of the opposite superior 

 maxilla ; with the anterior half of the Crista nasalls the vomer articulates. 



The Processus alveolar is carries 8 teeth (Fig. 25). 



The superior maxilla therefore articulates with 9 bones: 2 cranial 

 bones, the frontal, and ethmoid, and 7 facial bones, the nasal, malar, lachrymal, 

 palate, inferior turbinated, vomer and with the superior maxilla of the other side. 



Heitzmaun, Atlas. I. 



