Deep Face Flashcards
What makes up the floor and roof of the temporal fossa?
Floor: . Frontal bone . Parietal bone . Great wing of sphenoid bone . Temporal bone Roof: . Temporalis muscle + temporalis fascia
What are the boundaries of the temporal fossa?
. Superior and Inferior Temporal Lines (posterior/superior boundaries)
. Frontal and Zygomatic bones (anterior boundary)
. Zygomatic arch (lateral boundary)
. Infratemporal crest (inferior boundary)
Where is the deep face/infratemporal fossa located?
. Deep and inferior to the zygomatic arch
. Deep to the ramus of the mandible
. Posterior to the maxilla
What are the contents of the deep face?
. Later and medial pterygoid muscles
. Inferior portion of the temporalis muscle
. Maxillary artery and its branches
. Pterygoid venous plexus
. Mandibular nerve (V3) and its branches (inferior alveolar nerve, lingual nerve, buccal nerve)
. Chorda tympani nerve (VII branch)
. Otic ganglion (parasympathetic ganglion)
What are the boundaries of the deep face?
. Mandibular ramus (laterally)
. Lateral pterygoid plate (medially)
. Posterior aspect of the maxilla (anteriorly)
. Tympanic plate and mastoid and styloid processes (posteriorly)
. Inferior surface of the greater wing of the sphenoid (superiorly)
. Medial pterygoid attachment to the mandible (inferiorly)
What passes through the mandibular foramen?
. Inferior alveolar n, a, v
What forms the mylohyoid groove, directly below the mandibular foramen?
Mylohyoid n, a, v
What passes through the mental foramen?
Mental n, a, v
What is the mylohyoid line? What is the coronoid process?
. Attachment for mylohyoid muscle
. Attachment for the temporalis muscle
What are the four muscles of mastication and what is their innervation?
. Later pterygoid (V3)
. Medial pterygoid (V3)
. Masseter (V3)
. Temporalis (V3)
What are the movements of the mandible at the TMJ?
. Elevation . Depression . Protrustion . Retrusion . Lateral Deviation
Which main artery (and its branches) supply the deep face and describe its course?
. Maxillary artery
. It arises posterior to the neck of the mandible, courses under the mandibular condyle, and then passes superficial or deep to the lateral pterygoid
. It then passes medially from the infratemporal fossa through the pterygomaxillary fissure to enter the pterygopalatine fossa.
What are the three divisions of the maxillary artery?
. Retromandibular
. Pterygoid
. Pterygopalatine
What are the five branches of the retromandibular part of the maxillary artery?
. Deep auricular . Anterior tympanic . Middle meningeal . Accessory meningeal . Inferior alveolar
What are the four branches of the pterygoid part of the maxillary artery?
. Deep temporal
. Pterygoid
. Masseteric
. Buccal
What are the six branches of the pterygopalatine part of the maxillary artery?
. Posterior superior alveolar . Infraorbital . Descending palatine . Artery of the pterygoid canal . Pharyngeal . Sphenopalatine
What performs the venous drainage of the deep face?
. Pterygoid venous plexus
. Maxillary v
. Facial v
. Retromandibular v
Which two veins create the retromandibular vein?
. Superficial temporal
. Maxillary
What are the functional components of the mandibular nerve (CN V3)?
. Branchiomotor and somatic sensory (BM, SA)