While jogging on a trail you come upon a child who fell off her bike and has severe facial lacerations that are bleeding profusely. In order to most effectively curtail the bleeding, you would put pressure on the:

A) horizontal ramus of the mandible just anterior to the attachment of the masseter.
B) horizontal ramus of the mandible directly inferior to the angle of the mouth.
C) infraorbital foramen.
D) lateral aspect of mastoid process.
E) coronoid process of the mandible.


Ans: A

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