Mandibular Nerve Flashcards
Origin
- Sensory root (large): trigeminal ganglion
- Motor root (small): trigeminal nerve (pons)
Course and End
Leave skull: through foramen ovale
Unite: just below foramen ovale
Form main trunk: descends 1cm in infratemporal fossa in front of mandible neck
End by dividing into:
1. Anterior division: small mainly motor
2. Posterior division: large mainly sensory
Branches: from trunk
Motor:
1. Nerve to medial pterygoid
Sensory:
1.Nerve spinosus
Branches: from anterior division
Motor
1. Two deep temporal nerves
2. Nerve to masseter
3. Nerve to lateral pterygoid
Sensory
1. Buccal nerve
Branches: from posterior division
- Auriculotemporal nerve
- Inferior alveolar nerve
- Lingual nerve
Auriculotemporal nerve branches
- Parotid
- Articular
- Sensory
Inferior alveolar nerve branches
- Nerve to mylohyoid
- Dental branches
- Mental nerve
Lingual nerve branches
- General sensory
- Taste sensory
- Parasympathetic
Nerve to medial pterygoid supply
- Medial pterygoid
- Tensor palati
- Tensor tympani
Nervus spinosus course and supply
- Enters middle cranial fossa through foramen spinosum.
- Supply Dura.
Two deep temporal nerves supply
Temporalis muscle
Nerve to masseter muscle course
Pass through mandibular notch
Buccal nerve supply
Continuation of anterior division
1. Skin covering buccinator muscle
2. Mucosa lining buccinator muscle
Auriculotemporal nerve course
- Arises by 2 roots around middle meningeal artery
- Passes backwards deep to mandible neck
- Ascend within parotid behind TMJ
- Leaves parotid through its upper end
- Cross zygomatic arch to reach scalp
- Divide into branches
Parotid nerve supply
- Sympathetic fibers
- Parasympathetic fibers (Otic ganglion)
- Sensory fibers