What bone of the skull is on the side of the head, towards the anterior and is anterior to the temporal bone? Its shape somewhat resembles that of a butterfly or bat with its wings extended.
Sphenoid Bone
What bone of the skull makes up the forehead?
Frontal Bone
What is the smallest and most fragile bone of the skull? It is located close the the eye.
Lacrimal Bones
What bones form the bridge of the nose?
Nasal Bones
What bone forms the prominence of the cheek?
Zygomatic Bone
What bones form the sides and the roof of the skull?
Parietal Bones
What bone of the skull is situated around the temple?
Temporal Bone
“Temp” is in both
What bone makes up the back of the skull?
Occipital Bone
What bone makes up the lower jaw?
Mandible
What bones make up the upper jaw?
Maxilla
What are the muscles of facial expression?
Orbicularis Oculi Orbicularis Oris Frontalis Auricularis Nasalis Mentalis Buccinator Platysma
What are the muscles of mastication?
Masseter
Temporalis
Lateral Pterygoid
Medial Pterygoid
What innervates the muscles of facial expression?
Facial Nerve (CN VII)
What innervates the muscles of mastication?
Mandibular Nerve (CN V-3)
which is a branch of the Trigeminal Nerve (CN V)
What muscle allows you to squint your eyes?
Orbicularis Oculi
What muscle allows you to pucker for a kiss?
Orbicularis Oris
What muscle allows you to wrinkle your brow?
Frontalis
What muscles allow you to wiggle your ear?
Auricularis
What is the main sensory nerve of the face?
Trigeminal (CN V)
What are the branches of the trigeminal nerve?
Opthalmic (CN V-1)
Maxillary (CN V-2)
Mandibular (CN V-3)
What are the branches of the opthalmic nerve V-1?
Supraorbital
Supratrochlear
What are the branches of the maxillary nerve V-2?
Infraorbital
What are the branches of the mandibular nerve V-3?
Auriculotemporal
Lingual
Inferior Alveolar
-Mental
What is the main motor nerve of the face?
Facial (CN VII)
What are the branches of the facial nerve?
Temporal Zygomatic Buccal Mandibular Cervical
“Ten Zebras Bought My Car”
Which of the trigeminal nerves are purely sensory?
V-1 and V-2 are purely sensory. V-3, the mandibular nerve, carries both motor and sensory branches.
What receives the parasympathetic branches? What are the parasympathetic branches in the face?
The parotid and submandibular glands/
CN VII and IX are the parasympathetic branches
What are the branches of the external carotid artery?
Superior Thyroid Ascending Pharyngeal Lingual Facial Occipital Posterior Auricular Maxillary Superficial Temporal
SALFORMS
What runs through the pterygomaxillary fissure?
Maxillary Artery
Where is the weak part of the skull?
Pterion
What runs beneath the pterion that is vulnerable to injury?
Middle Meningeal Artery
Describe the flow of lymph in the face.
Flow goes from superficial nodes to deep cervical nodes to the thoracic duct or the right lymphatic duct
What are the superficial lymph nodes?
Occipital Mastoid Parotid Superficial Cervical Submandibular Submental
What are the deep lymph nodes?
Jugulodigastric (Upper Deep Cervical)
Juguloomohyoid (Lower Deep Cervical)
What is the arterial supply of the face?
Facial Artery
Superficial Temporal Artery
Maxillary Artery
What are some important branches of the maxillary artery?
Mandibular Part
- Middle Meningeal Artery
- Inferior Alveolar Artery
Pterygopalatine Part
- Posterior Superior Alveolar Artery
- Infraorbital Artery
- Descending Palatine Artery
- Sphenopalatine Artery
What is the temporomandibular joint?
A joint of the jaw between the mandible and the temporal bone that can sometimes have a slipped disc that leads to great pain.