Inferior alveolar artery

The inferior alveolar artery ( " lower alveolar artery ") is an artery of the head. It springs from the first portion of the maxillary artery ( maxillary ).

A. The inferior alveolar initially dismisses a ramus of the mylohyoid branches in the floor of the mouth below the mylohyoid muscle. Then it runs through the lower jaw hole mandibular foramen ( lower jaw hole ) of the mandible in the mandibular canal ( mandibular ) within this bone in which it contracts with the same name vein and nerve ( inferior alveolar nerve ) toward the chin. Here the artery sends fine branches to the lower teeth and the lower jaw itself at the mental foramen ( hole chin ) takes one of the two terminal branches, the ramus mentalis, again from the mandible and supplies the chin region. The second terminal branch occurs within the bone of the incisors.