Blood and Nerve supply to the face

Question 1

What supplies blood to the face

Answer 1

Facial artery

Transverse facial artery

Question 2

What is the pathway of the facial artery?

Answer 2

The facial artery arises in the carotid triangle from the external carotid artery.
it arches to enter a groove on the posterior surface of the submandibular gland.
It then curves upward over the body of the mandible at the antero-inferior angle of the masseter, passes forward and upward across the cheek to the angle of the mouth, then ascends along the side of the nose, and ends at the medial commissure of the eye, under the name of the angular artery.

Question 3

What are the branches of the facial artery in the face?

Answer 3

Inferior labial
Superior labial
Lateral nasal

Question 4

What forms the facial vein?

Answer 4

Supra trochlear vein & supra orbital vein unites to form angular vein and continues as facial vein in the medial angle of eye

Question 5

What forms the common facial vein and where is it drained?

Answer 5

The facial vein unites with retromandibular vein to form common facial vein and terminates by draining in to internal jugular vein

Question 6

What nerve is responsible for the sensory factors in the face?

Answer 6

Trigeminal nerve

Question 7

What are the branches of the trigeminal nerve?

Answer 7

Ophthalmic , Maxillary and Mandibular branches

Question 8

What are the branches for the motor nerve supply in the face?

Answer 8

Temporal
Zygomatic
Buccal
Marginal mandibular
Cervical

Question 9

What are the branches for the motor nerve supply in the face?

Answer 9

Temporal
Zygomatic
Buccal
Marginal mandibular
Cervical

Question 10

Area of sensory distribution of face of the Maxillary

Answer 10

Upper lip
Side and ala of nose
Lower eyelid
Upper part of cheek
Anterior part of temple

Question 11

Area of sensory distribution of face of the Ophthalmic

Answer 11

Scalp up to vertex
Forehead
Upper eyelid
Conjunctiva
Root, dorsum and tip of nose