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<record><TEI><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title xml:lang="en">Accessory mental foramina, incisive nerve plexus and lingual canals with unusual emergence paths: Report of two rare cases</title><author><name sortKey="Haghanifar, Sina" sort="Haghanifar, Sina" uniqKey="Haghanifar S" first="Sina" last="Haghanifar">Sina Haghanifar</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Poorsattar Bejeh Mir, Arash" sort="Poorsattar Bejeh Mir, Arash" uniqKey="Poorsattar Bejeh Mir A" first="Arash" last="Poorsattar Bejeh Mir">Arash Poorsattar Bejeh Mir</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><italic>Dental Materials Research Center, Dental School, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Ganj Afrooz Ave, Babol, Iran</italic></nlm:aff></affiliation></author></titleStmt><publicationStmt><idno type="wicri:source">PMC</idno><idno type="pmid">25767360</idno><idno type="pmc">4357078</idno><idno type="url">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4357078</idno><idno type="RBID">PMC:4357078</idno><idno type="doi">10.4103/0975-962X.151710</idno><date when="2015">2015</date><idno type="wicri:Area/Pmc/Corpus">001C90</idno><idno type="wicri:explorRef" wicri:stream="Pmc" wicri:step="Corpus" wicri:corpus="PMC">001C90</idno></publicationStmt><sourceDesc><biblStruct><analytic><title xml:lang="en" level="a" type="main">Accessory mental foramina, incisive nerve plexus and lingual canals with unusual emergence paths: Report of two rare cases</title><author><name sortKey="Haghanifar, Sina" sort="Haghanifar, Sina" uniqKey="Haghanifar S" first="Sina" last="Haghanifar">Sina Haghanifar</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Poorsattar Bejeh Mir, Arash" sort="Poorsattar Bejeh Mir, Arash" uniqKey="Poorsattar Bejeh Mir A" first="Arash" last="Poorsattar Bejeh Mir">Arash Poorsattar Bejeh Mir</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><italic>Dental Materials Research Center, Dental School, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Ganj Afrooz Ave, Babol, Iran</italic></nlm:aff></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">Indian Journal of Dentistry</title><idno type="ISSN">0975-962X</idno><idno type="eISSN">2213-3666</idno><imprint><date when="2015">2015</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><p>Being knowledgeable of neurovascularization of anterior mandible is crucial for successful local anesthesia and for safe minor and major oral surgeries of this part. The first case was 62 years old and was found to have two accessory mental foramina with buccal emergence on the left side and two accessory mental foramina with buccal and lingual emergence paths on the right side (overall five mental foramina). Incisive nerve plexus with multiple cephalic branching was obvious on both sides. The second case was 60 years of age and had two lingual foramina on the lingual side with two accessory foramina on the buccal side of the symphysis. Considering our findings, a pre-operation limited cone beam computed tomography is suggested to avoid inadvertent damage, especially when planning a surgery in the mandibular inter-mental region.</p></div></front><back><div1 type="bibliography"><listBibl><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Riesenfeld, A" uniqKey="Riesenfeld A">A Riesenfeld</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Juodzbalys, G" uniqKey="Juodzbalys G">G Juodzbalys</name></author><author><name sortKey="Wang, Hl" uniqKey="Wang H">HL Wang</name></author><author><name sortKey="Sabalys, G" uniqKey="Sabalys G">G Sabalys</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Haghanifar, S" uniqKey="Haghanifar S">S Haghanifar</name></author><author><name sortKey="Rokouei, M" uniqKey="Rokouei M">M Rokouei</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Ramadhan, A" uniqKey="Ramadhan A">A 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Indian J Dent</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Indian J Dent</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">IJDENT</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Indian Journal of Dentistry</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">0975-962X</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2213-3666</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd</publisher-name><publisher-loc>India</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">25767360</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">4357078</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">IJDENT-6-44</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4103/0975-962X.151710</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Case Report</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Accessory mental foramina, incisive nerve plexus and lingual canals with unusual emergence paths: Report of two rare cases</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Haghanifar</surname><given-names>Sina</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Poorsattar Bejeh Mir</surname><given-names>Arash</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">1</xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><italic>Department of Maxillofacial Radiology, Dental School, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Ganj Afrooz Ave, Babol, Iran</italic></aff><aff id="aff2"><label>1</label><italic>Dental Materials Research Center, Dental School, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Ganj Afrooz Ave, Babol, Iran</italic></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1"><bold>Address for correspondence:</bold> Dr. Arash Poorsattar Bejeh Mir, Dental Materials Research Center, Dental School, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Ganj Afrooz Ave, Babol, Iran. E-mail: <email xlink:href="arashpoorsattar@gmail.com">arashpoorsattar@gmail.com</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><season>Jan-Mar</season><year>2015</year></pub-date><volume>6</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>44</fpage><lpage>48</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright: © Indian Journal of Dentistry</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2015</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Being knowledgeable of neurovascularization of anterior mandible is crucial for successful local anesthesia and for safe minor and major oral surgeries of this part. The first case was 62 years old and was found to have two accessory mental foramina with buccal emergence on the left side and two accessory mental foramina with buccal and lingual emergence paths on the right side (overall five mental foramina). Incisive nerve plexus with multiple cephalic branching was obvious on both sides. The second case was 60 years of age and had two lingual foramina on the lingual side with two accessory foramina on the buccal side of the symphysis. Considering our findings, a pre-operation limited cone beam computed tomography is suggested to avoid inadvertent damage, especially when planning a surgery in the mandibular inter-mental region.</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Anatomy</kwd><kwd>case report</kwd><kwd>mandible</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec sec-type="intro" id="sec1-1"><title>INTRODUCTION</title><p>The first report of accessory foramina dates back to 1956 and an anthropologic study in which multiple mental, ethmoidal and infraorbital foramina were described in the human race.[<xref rid="ref1" ref-type="bibr">1</xref>]</p><p>Inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) traverses the mandible within the inferior alveolar nerve canal (IANC) and has three distinct anatomical patterns as it ends: Mental nerve (MN), anterior loop (AL) and mandibular incisive nerve (MIN).[<xref rid="ref2" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>]</p><p>The MN may branch to smaller trunks before exiting from the mental foramen (MF), and may give rise to an accessory mental nerve (AMN). Intraosseous anterior short extension of MN beyond the MF is called anterior loop (AL).[<xref rid="ref2" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>] Mandibular incisive canal (MIC) is the intraosseous extension of the mandibular canal that almost terminates in the apical region of the mandibular incisors emerging from a lingual foramen (LF).[<xref rid="ref2" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>]</p><p>The MF may vary widely in incidence, size, number (i.e. presence of an accessory canal), location (i.e. with regard to teeth apices), shape (i.e. round vs. ovoid) and direction of opening.[<xref rid="ref2" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>] A single mental foramen is mainly found between the first and second premolar roots or inferior to the apex of the second premolar.[<xref rid="ref3" ref-type="bibr">3</xref>]</p><p>Different incidences of accessory mental canals are reported to range from 1.5% to 12.5%. No clear role for mandibular side, age and gender is documented, aside from race.[<xref rid="ref2" ref-type="bibr">2</xref><xref rid="ref4" ref-type="bibr">4</xref><xref rid="ref5" ref-type="bibr">5</xref>] It may be absent on 0.2% of the occasions reported by de Freitas, who studied 1435 dry skulls.[<xref rid="ref6" ref-type="bibr">6</xref>] Double and triple MFs are found in 1.8–10.6% and 0.6–1.2% of population.[<xref rid="ref4" ref-type="bibr">4</xref><xref rid="ref7" ref-type="bibr">7</xref>] Of interest, 1.1% may have bilateral accessory mental foramen (AMF).[<xref rid="ref5" ref-type="bibr">5</xref>]</p><p>The reported frequency of midline lingual foramen is 12.8–99.04% of cases.[<xref rid="ref8" ref-type="bibr">8</xref><xref rid="ref9" ref-type="bibr">9</xref>] More than 80% of the lingual foramen or foramina could be found between the two lateral incisors. The majority of cases are single in number and are located above the genial tubercle (72%), followed by double (22%) and triple (4%) lingual foramina, which appear on the lingual surface of the mandible in the interforaminal area.[<xref rid="ref8" ref-type="bibr">8</xref>] The reported absence rates are 0.96–4.5%. The lingual foramen is visible in 28–49% of the periapical radiographies.[<xref rid="ref9" ref-type="bibr">9</xref><xref rid="ref10" ref-type="bibr">10</xref>]</p><p>Different emergence paths for MF with regard to its exiting point from IANC are as follows: Posterior, right angled, posterior superior, labial, mesial (anterior) and superior directions.[<xref rid="ref2" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>] The MN is an afferent sensory nerve that supplies the sensation of chin, lip corner and its adjacent mucosa with its four major branches: Angular, medial inferior, lateral inferior and mental branches.[<xref rid="ref2" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>]</p><p>At LF, MIN may communicate with an accessory branch from the mylohyoid nerve. In addition, the incisive artery may have anastomosis with right and left lingual arteries.[<xref rid="ref9" ref-type="bibr">9</xref>] Reports considering the contents of this foramen, however, are not consistent addressing within nervous and vascular plexus.[<xref rid="ref9" ref-type="bibr">9</xref>]</p><p>The anterior mandibular anatomical and neurovascular apparatus may be documented by intraoperative surgical findings, conventional radiographies (e.g. periapical and panoramic views), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) and cone beam CT (CBCT). More recently, Doppler ultrasound study is suggested to assess the vascular content of the main and also to evaluate unusual accessory foramina.[<xref rid="ref10" ref-type="bibr">10</xref><xref rid="ref11" ref-type="bibr">11</xref><xref rid="ref12" ref-type="bibr">12</xref>]</p><p>The presence of a accessory canal is influential on differential diagnoses with other radiolucent pathologic lesions, effectiveness of local anesthesia, intraoperative iatrogenic damages and increased chance of metastasis.[<xref rid="ref7" ref-type="bibr">7</xref><xref rid="ref10" ref-type="bibr">10</xref>] Hence, being aware of these canals is of paramount importance in all diagnoses, treatment plan and prognosis aspects.</p></sec><sec id="sec1-2"><title>CASE REPORTS</title><sec id="sec2-1"><title>Case 1</title><p>A 62-year-old patient referred was found to have one main MF and two AMF with buccal emergence on the left side [Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">1a</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">b</xref>]. Examination of the right side revealed two mental foramina with buccal opening and one with lingual emergence [Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">1c</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">d</xref>]. This lingual mental foramen was in communication with the main IANC and MF and a crestal extension of IANC [<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F2">Figure 2</xref>]. Topographic details are displayed in <xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">Table 1</xref>. He had two buccal MF and two LFs. As evident in the panorama view, a communicating neural bundle existed between mental foramina, incisive canals and crestal opening of their vertical extension [<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">Figure 3</xref>].</p><fig id="F1" position="float"><label>Figure 1</label><caption><p>(a). 3D view of the patients’ mandible (arrows indicate mental foramina), (b) main (distal) and accessory (mesial) mental foramina on the right side, (c) main (middle) and accessory foramina (most medial and most distal) of the left side and (d) lingual accessory mental foramen on the ride side (arrow). MF: Mental foramen, AMF: Accessory mental foramen</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="IJDENT-6-44-g001"></graphic></fig><fig id="F2" position="float"><label>Figure 2</label><caption><p>(a–d) Communication of lingual AMF with IANC and buccal MF. Reconstruction of four continuous cross-sectional images. MF: Mental foramen, AMF: Accessory mental foramen, IANC: Inferior alveolar nerve canal</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="IJDENT-6-44-g002"></graphic></fig><table-wrap id="T1" position="float"><label>Table 1</label><caption><p>Topographic data of the main and accessory foramina (mm)</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="IJDENT-6-44-g003"></graphic></table-wrap><fig id="F3" position="float"><label>Figure 3</label><caption><p>(a) Panoramic view of patient's mandible. Note multiple branching incisive nerve on both sides with crestal extension. (b–d) Communications of the upper and lower lingual foramina and a crestal opening. Reconstruction of three continuous cross-sectional images. LF: Lingual foramen, ALF: Accessory lingual foramen</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="IJDENT-6-44-g004"></graphic></fig></sec><sec id="sec2-2"><title>Case 2</title><p>Investigating a 60-year-old patient in symphysis mentalis from the lingual side revealed two LF with two additional openings [<xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">Table 1</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F4">Figure 4</xref>]. One of them was located at the buccal side and another was on the inferior border of the symphysis.</p><fig id="F4" position="float"><label>Figure 4</label><caption><p>(a) Frontal view of the buccal emergence of the incisive nerve at the midline mandible (arrows), (b–d) communications of buccal and lingual (lingual foramen) exit paths of the incisive nerve and reconstruction of three continuous cross-sectional images. Lingual foramina and a crestal opening. Reconstruction of three continuous cross-sectional images. LF: Lingual foramen, ALF: Accessory lingual foramen. AF: Accessory foramen with buccal emergence paths</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="IJDENT-6-44-g005"></graphic></fig><p>Past medical history of both patients who were male and Iranian was significant for hypertension and osteoporosis. Dental history was significant for advanced periodontitis and severe bone loss and both wore complete denture for several years.</p><p>Both image acquisitions were performed with a CBCT device (Cranex 3D, Soredex, Finland) in a high-resolution mode with further multiplanar reconstruction using the “Ondemand3D” software.</p></sec></sec><sec sec-type="discussion" id="sec1-3"><title>DISCUSSION</title><p>A case with six mental foamina and a case with two additional exiting paths aside two lingual foramina at the midline are reported. The mandible possessed many accessory foramina that nearly all appear in the lingual side. Their contents are diverse.[<xref rid="ref2" ref-type="bibr">2</xref><xref rid="ref7" ref-type="bibr">7</xref><xref rid="ref10" ref-type="bibr">10</xref>] Considering the neurovascular contents and possible significant communications and anastomoses with other important adjacent neural and vascular plexus should not be neglected just for their size.[<xref rid="ref10" ref-type="bibr">10</xref>]</p><p>Among two cases, one had multiple bilateral mental foramina and a rare lingual mental foramen with unusual neural plexus. A lingually located MF is very uncommon and a few reports do exist in the literature.[<xref rid="ref12" ref-type="bibr">12</xref>] The other case was noticed to have multiple LF with bicortical opening from the symphysis. Dissimilar to the existing documented anatomical descriptions of LF, this situation is also rare. All were accidental findings of CBCT images.</p><p>The AMN, which is commonly less than 1 mm in diameter, could not be feasibly found in the periapical and panoramic views with 14% and 23.5% distortion rates, respectively (4). A helical CT, nevertheless, may also miss these anatomic variations due to its inherent low resolution.[<xref rid="ref7" ref-type="bibr">7</xref>] Cone beam CT, however, is reliable to detect such small foramina with a precision of less than 0.06 mm discrepancy.[<xref rid="ref2" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>]</p><p>As a misbelief, it is generally accepted that accessory foramina are located posterior and inferior to the main canal and are smaller in size. Singh postulated that AMF could be found beneath the apex of the first molar; nevertheless, there are documented reports that clearly show that the accessory foramina may be found anterior (mesial) or superior to the main foramen and are even larger in size.[<xref rid="ref5" ref-type="bibr">5</xref><xref rid="ref13" ref-type="bibr">13</xref>] We named the main canals with regard to the diameter of the branching trunk from IAN. Actually, all mental foramina extended directly from the IAN.</p><p>The first case exhibited multiple bilateral communicating incisive nerves. A MIC is usually single on each side and is seen in 11% of the panoramic images.[<xref rid="ref2" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>] A cadaver study and CBCT investigations reported that is does exist in 26–100% of the cases. Of interest, just one-third of the edentulous cadavers revealed this anatomic structure; meanwhile, more than 90% of the dentulous cadavers had one.[<xref rid="ref2" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>] It is difficult to localize the MIC in conventional radiographies due to the corresponding adjacent bony structures.[<xref rid="ref8" ref-type="bibr">8</xref>]</p><p>Besides the importance of successful local anesthesia, maxillofacial surgeons should be aware of the risk of damage during vestibuloplasty of anterior mandible with extensive bone resroption and during osteotomy, orthognatic surgery and genioplasty.[<xref rid="ref10" ref-type="bibr">10</xref><xref rid="ref11" ref-type="bibr">11</xref><xref rid="ref13" ref-type="bibr">13</xref>]</p><p>Accessory mental foramina should be differentiated from the buccal foramina or vascular foramina (nutritional foramina).[<xref rid="ref10" ref-type="bibr">10</xref><xref rid="ref11" ref-type="bibr">11</xref>] They are more frequent on the external and internal surfaces of the mandible. Moreover, they are smaller in size and do not communicate with the mandibular inferior alveolar nerve. As defined by Ichikawa in 1961, a nutritional foramen is formed in the prenatal era and is a passage for communications of the lower lip, submental and facial arteries deep into the cancellous bone.[<xref rid="ref11" ref-type="bibr">11</xref>]</p><p>The Iranian population is aging. Approaching this unique class of patients needs special medical, dental and psychiatric knowledge.[<xref rid="ref14" ref-type="bibr">14</xref>] Edentulism occupies a considerable share of disability-adjusted life year score for mouth conditions in the + 60 year old population reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) for Iranian people.[<xref rid="ref15" ref-type="bibr">15</xref>]</p><p>When the presence of such accessory foramina is doubted or assured in an aged patient, a sophisticated dentist or team should take the responsibility of dental care of the patient for many reasons. First, polypharmacy is not uncommon in an elderly patient, including consumption of anticoagulant agents.[<xref rid="ref14" ref-type="bibr">14</xref>] There could be progressive bleeding through the limited space of a non-expandable osseous chamber and subsequent compressive neuropathy of within neural bundles. Second, a profound and successful local anesthesia may guarantee the cooperation of an aged patient with labile emotion, which is substantially affected by the presence of accessory foramina. Third, accessory foramina of the lingual side of the mandible, if neglected, may lead to paresthesia, ischemic necrosis and ulceration of the lingual side, which depends on their neurovascular content. 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