ABSTRACT
The occipito-mental projection shows the floor of the orbits in profile, the nasal region, the maxillae, the inferior parts of the frontal bone and the zygomatic bone. The zygomatic arches can be seen but they are visualised ‘end on’ and thus appear foreshortened. The occipito-mental projection is designed to project the petrous parts of the temporal bone below the inferior part of the maxilla.
