Talk:Buccal space

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as far as i understand, this article is explaining about buccal vestibule. buccal space is a potential tissue space.

Agree, the buccal space has nothing to do with buccal (i.e. transmucosal) route of administration for medications, because it does not exist in health and is only created pathologically, usually by infection... Lesion (talk) 12:56, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

OK I've just mannually moved the old contents to buccal administration, a title in line with other route of adminiistration pages like sublingual administration and sublabial administration, and started the new page here. Sorry for lack of refs, I didn't have any head and neck anatomy textbooks so I just copied form my undergraduate notes, I think they were taken from Grays anatomy 39-40th ed...can't remember. Lesion (talk) 16:09, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Undue weight

I've reworked the article a bit, but might be too much from the oral surgery perspective. It would be good now to have sections from ENT... I'm sure this space can be involved in the spread of infection from the palatine tonsils for example. Lesion (talk) 23:36, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Buccal space is not a potential space.

The article states that the buccal space is a potential space. I wonder where this statement originates. A potential space is, by Wikipedias own definition "a space that can occur between two adjacent structures that are normally pressed together". The normal buccal space contains a fat pad (the "buccal fat pad") typically around 2 x 2 x 1 cm as well as vessels and minor salivary glands, thus it is hardly a potential space. JM Moen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.186.70.22 (talk) 08:42, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Not convinced by that definition. Another definition of potential space is one that has to be created. For example, the wikipedia article lists the vagina as a potential space and this is incorrect as far as I'm aware. As far as I can see the reference is found on fasical spaces of the head and neck, Kenneth M. Hargreaves, Stephen Cohen ; web editor, Louis H.Berman, ed. (2010). Cohen's pathways of the pulp (10th ed.). St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby Elsevier. pp. 590–595. ISBN 978-0323064897. Matthew Ferguson (talk) 18:18, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the reference! The reference text is apparently based on an old anatomy article (Gordinsky M, Holyoke EA: The fascia and fascial spaces of the head, neck and adjacent regions. Am J Anat 63:367,1938) in which the term "potential space" is not defined or discussed before it is used. The use of this term for anatomical compartments containing grossly visible anatomical content (such as the buccal space) is at best confusing - and when it comes to the understanding of the term in modern medicine (though perhaps not in dentistry?), it is misleading. Your example definition of the term illustrates the problem, as the buccal space of course does not need to "be created". As discussed in this article by RL Newell (Clin Anat. 1999;12(1):66-9.Anatomical spaces: a review.), the term is probably best avoided altogether. This seems to affect several face and neck anatomy articles though, I'll try to make revisions when I get time. JM Moen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.186.70.26 (talk) 10:51, 11 April 2016 (UTC)