LYMPHATIC VESSELS IN HUMAN ALVEOLAR BONE

Abstract

There are large vessels within the trabecular spaces
of human alveolar bone buccal to the maxillary
first premolars. In form and fine structure the vessels
are collecting lymphatics which ongmate as Initial
lymphatics within the periodontal membrane
and extend through the buccal plate of bone. By
contrast, present evidence suggests that such vessels
do not exist in long bones.