KROK 1 Stomatology 2015 – Question 4 · KROK (Dentistry)
A female patient has referred to a dentist with complaints of bruise and swelling around her eye. Anamnesis is as follows: several days prior her 1st premolar tooth had been extracted, with infraorbital anesthesia administered; several days later hematoma appeared in the area of foramen infraorbitale. Branch of the following artery was damaged:
- A. Masseteric artery
- B. Maxillary artery
- C. Superficial temporal artery
- D. Superior labial artery
- E. Facial artery
Hint
Identify the artery that emerges from the infraorbital foramen together with the nerve, then trace it back to its parent trunk.
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