KROK 1 Stomatology 2012 – Question 82 · KROK (Dentistry)
A 67-year-old patient ordered a full functional denture. It was necessary to extract his left upper canine. After infraorbital anaesthesia a patient presented with a progressing haematoma in the frontal part of his face. The patient was found to have an injury of an artery which is the branch of:
- A. A. labialis superior
- B. A. facialis
- C. A. ophthalmica
- D. A. temporalis superficialis
- E. A. maxillaris
Hint
Identify which artery passes through the infraorbital foramen and trace it back to its parent vessel in the pterygopalatine fossa.
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