Face, Temporal And Infratemporal Fossa Flashcards
How to test facial nerve?
Raise eyebrows, close eyes and keep them closed, puff cheeks and reveal teeth
What does parotid gland do?
Produce watery saliva
Facial nerve splits into?
Large motor root and smaller nervous intermedius arising at cerebellar pontine angle.
What passes through internal acoustic meatus ?
CN 8 and CN 7
Sensory supply of facial nerve?
Anterior 2/3 via chorda tympani and submandibular ganglion
After the parotid gland, the facial nerve divides into 5 branches:
Temporal, zygomatic, buccal, marginal mandibular, and cervical
Which branch passes behind ear of the facial nerve?
Posterior auricular
Deep vein, retromandibular vein is formed by?
Superficial temporal vein and maxillary vein join, then into external jugular vein and into subclavian vein
What’s the difference between Bell’s palsy and stroke?
In stroke the forehead will be spared and in Bell’s palsy it wont.
Temporalis muscle origin and insertion?
Origin- temporal bone
Insertion- medial surface of coronoid process of mandible
Masseter muscle insertion and origin?
Origin- zygomatic bone/ arch
Insertion-lateral surface of ramus of the mandible
Infratemporal fossa contains?
My mother momentarily forgot giving pizza
Maxillary artery Mandibular nerve Medial and lateral pterygoids Branches of facial nerve Glossopharyngeal nerve Pterygoid plexus of veins
2 heads of medial pterygoid?
Deep head from medial surface of the lateral pterygoid plate of sphenoid bone.
Superficial head from maxilla
Both insert to mandible
2 heads of the lateral pterygoid?
Upper head- roof of fossa
Lower head- lateral surface of lateral pterygoid plate
Insertion- neck of mandible and temporomandibular joint
How is lateral pterygoid different to other muscles?
Depresses mandible
Maxillary artery gives off which branch that travels within mandibular canal?
And what does this artery give off?
Inferior alveolar artery gives off mylohyoid branch
Where do both heads of the lateral pterygoids insert?
Temporomandibular joint
Bruxism?
Teeth grinding
What does auricotemporal nerve do?
Conveys postganglionic parasympathetic fibres from otic ganglion to parotid gland