Buccal Cavity

Teeth physically taste and breakdown food

Saliva lubricate and partially digests, and swallows food

muscular organ

Conatins taste buds

Sweet

Salty

Bitter

Sour

bony structure forms roof of mouth

seperates mouth from nasal cavity

Soft Palate

seperates mouth from nasopharynx

coned shaped muscular structure

prevents food from entering the nasopharynx during swallowing

Parotia

Sublingual

Submandibular

Saliva

lubricates mouth during speech and chewing

moistens food so it an be swallowed

Containes Salivary Amylase which begins chemical breakdown of carbs/starches into sugars that can be taken into the body