Exam 2 Key Points Flashcards
What goes through the foramen ovale?
- CN V3
- Accessory meningeal artery
Is CN V3 sensory, motor, or mixed?
Mixed nerve
What goes through the foramen spinosum?
Middle meningeal artery
Where is the pterygomaxillary fissure?
Opening between the infratemporal fossa and the pterygopalatine fossa
What goes through the pterygomaxillary fissure?
- Maxillary artery
- Posterior superior nerve, artery, and vein
What attaches to the coronoid process of the mandible?
Temporalis muscle
What is the function of the head of the condylar process of the mandible?
TMJ articular surface
What attaches to the pterygoid fovea on the neck of the mandible?
Lateral pterygoid muscle
What attaches to the angle of the mandible?
- Medial pterygoid muscle
- Masseter muscle
- Stylomandibular ligament
What attaches to the ramus of the mandible?
- Masseter muscle
- Medial pterygoid muscle
What attaches to the lingula of the mandible
Sphenomandibular ligament
What goes through the mandibular foramen/canal?
Inferior alveolar nerve, artery, and vein
What goes through the mylohyoid groove?
Mylohyoid nerve, artery, and vein
What goes through the mental foramen?
Mental nerve, artery, and vein
What artery passes through the neck of the mandible and the sphenomandibular ligament to get to the infratemporal fossa?
Maxillary artery
The maxillary artery either courses deep or superficial to what muscle in the infratemporal fossa?
Lateral pterygoid muscle
How does the maxillary artery exit the infratempora fossa?
Pterygomaxillary fissure
What is the counterpart of the maxillary artery?
Pterygoid plexus of veins
What does the pterygoid plexus of veins communicate with?
- Cavernous sinus
- Facial vein
- Ophthalmic vein
Where is the inferior alveolar nerve found in the infratemporal fossa?
- Medial to the ramus of the mandible
- Lateral surface of the medial pterygoid muscle
What foramen and canal does the inferior alveolar nerve pass through?
Mandibular foramen and mandibular canal
What does the inferior alveolar nerve innervate?
Mandibular teeth
Is the inferior alveolar nerve a sensory, motor, or mixed nerve?
Mixed nerve
What are the two branches of the inferior alveolar nerve?
- Mylohyoid branch
- Mental branch
Is the mylohyoid branch a sensory, motor, or mixed nerve?
Motor nerve
Is the mental branch a sensory, motor, or mixed nerve?
Sensory nerve
What does the mylohyoid branch innervate?
- Mylohyoid muscle
- Anterior belly of the digastric muscle
What does the mental branch mediate?
Sensation on the labial gingiva adjacent to the mandibular canines
Is the long buccal nerve a a sensory, motor, or mixed nerve?
Sensory
What does the long buccal nerve innervate?
Sensory to the buccal gingiva adjacent tot he mandibular molars
What CN is the chorda tympani nerve from?
Facial nerve, CN VII
What special sensory innervation does the chorda tympani nerve have?
Taste to the anterior 2/3 of the tongue
What parasympathetic innervation does the chorda tympani nerve have?
Submandibular and sublingual glands
What branch of CN V3 does the chorda tympani nerve join to get to the oral cavity?
Lingual nerve
What CN is the lingual nerve a branch of?
CN V3
What CN is the lesser petrosal nerve a branch of?
Glossopharyngeal, CN IX
What CN is the posterior superior alveolar nerve a branch of?
CN V2
How does the posterior superior alveolar nerve enter the infratemporal fossa?
Pterygomaxillary fissure
What does the posterior superior alveolar nerve innervate?
- Maxillary molar teeth and adjacent gingiva
- Maxillary sinus
Is the otic ganglion sympathetic or parasympathetic?
Parasympathetic
Stylomandibular ligament attachments?
- Styloid process of temporal
- Angle of the mandible
Sphenomandibular ligament attachments?
- Spine of sphenoid
- Lingula of mandible
Is the sphenomandibular ligament medial or lateral to the TMJ joint capsule?
Medial
The head of the mandible articulates with the articular disc is what compartment?
Inferior synovial compartment
Where do hinge and rotational movements of the TMJ take place at?
Inferior synovial compartment
Where do gliding actions of the TMJ take place at?
Superior synovial compartment
Where does the mandibular fossa or articular eminence articulate with the articular disc at?
Superior synovial cavity
What mediates sensation from the TMJ?
Auriculotemporal nerve, CN V3
Translation of the TMJ must occur for what to happen?
For the jaw to open widely
All muscles of mastication receive motor innervation from branches of…
CN V3
Lateral pterygoid muscle, superior head origin?
Infratemporal surface of sphenoid
Lateral pterygoid muscle, inferior head origin?
Lateral surface of lateral pterygoid plate
Lateral pterygoid muscle insertion?
- Articular disc of TMJ
- Pterygoid fova
Lateral pterygoid muscle action?
- Protrusion
- Depression
What muscle has an effect on contralateral deviation?
Lateral pterygoid muscle
Medial pterygoid muscle, superficial head origin?
Maxillary tuberosity
Medial pterygoid muscle, deep head origin
Medial side of the lateral pterygoid plate
Medial pterygoid muscle insertion?
Medial aspect of the angle and ramus of the mandible