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Big Mouth Babes
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Description
• Mouth cavity
Illustration of the inside of a human mouth. Cheeks have been cut and lips pulled back for an unobstructed view.
The first space of the mouth is the mouth cavity, bounded laterally and in front by the alveolar process (containing the teeth), posteriorily by the isthmus of the fauces, superiorly or the roof is formed by hard palate and soft palateand inferiorly or the floor of the mouth is formed by the mylohyoid muscles and is occupied mainly by the tongue. The oral cavity is also known as the mouth which swallows food that then goes down the esophagus and into the stomach.
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