Classifications of mandibular canal branching: A review of literature

Figure 1 White arrow showing the origin of a mandibular canal branch in the mandibular body found by Rouas et al[13] (2007) on a computed tomography exam.

Figure 2 Cone bean computed tomography exam with a white arrow pointing the origin of a forward canal without confluence, bifurcated from the main mandibular canal in the ramus region, and classified as type 3 by Naitoh et al[15] (2009).