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Where is the alveolar ridge located in the mouth?

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Diagram of a human head in profile showing the location of vocal organs and possible places of articulation for speech sounds, with labels for lips, teeth, tongue, palate, uvula, pharynx, and vocal cords, and numbered regions corresponding to types of articulation such as bilabial, alveolar, and velar.
phonetics Diagram depicting the location of human vocal organs and possible places of articulation used for speech.

In the context of phonetics and linguistics, the alveolar ridge is the gum-covered ridge of bone located in the upper jaw, situated directly behind the upper teeth.12

Anatomically, the alveolar ridge refers to the raised, thickened border of both the maxilla (upper jaw) and the [mandible](https://www.