Temporal & Infra temporal Fossa Flashcards
What are the 2 fossa on the side of the head?
- Temporal
- Infratemporal Fossa
They are interconnected spaces
what are the boundaries of the two fossa?
Soft tissues! Encased
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The two fossa are related to what musucles?
Muscles of mastication
What muscles if lateral to the infratemporal space?
Masseter Muscles
What are the 3 muscles of mastication?
- Medial & Lateral Ptergoid Muscles (infratemp fossa)
- Masseter M.
What are the two parts of the masseter muscles?
- Superficall belly
- Deep belly
What are the 5 bony landmarks of the two fossa?
- Temporal bone
- Zygomatic arch
- Sphenoid bones (greater & lesser wing)
- Maxilla
- Mandible
Describe the
* location of the temporal fossa
* shape
* where it stems to where it goes,
* major structures within
- Covers the lateral surface of the skull
- Fan shaped, thin muscle
- From Zygomatic process to Supramastoid crestof temporal bone
- Temporalis Muscle
Explain the function of the temporalis muscles
- **Elevator m. **
- Muscle of mastication
- Elevates mandible through closing of jaw
- Creates posteriorization, brings teeth together and prevents banging of incisors.
What muscles elevates the mandible through closing of jaw?
Temporalis Muscle
What is the blood supply of the temporalis muscles?
- Deep temporal artery
- Middle Temporal artery
Both from temporal Artery from ECA
What 2 nerve branches innervate the temporalis muscles ?
- Deep Temporal Nerves motor (V3)
- Zygomaticotemporal sensory (V2)
What branch of the Mandibular nerve of CN5 provies motor function to the temporalis muscle?
Deep Temporal Nerves
What branch off the Zygomatic nerve from the Maxillary V2 CN5 supples sensory inervation to the skin of temple
Zygomaticotemporal Branch
Sensory or Motor?
Deep temporal nerve
Motor
Sensory or motor?
Zygomatoctemporal?
Sensory
What are the two artries supply the temporal fossa
- Deep tempral Artery
- Middle temporal artery
Explain the Deep temporal Artery
Come off theMaxillary arteryand branch upward to supply blood to the temporal fossa.
Explaint the middle temporal artery
Comes off the Superficial temporal artery (directly off ECA).
* Goes up passes under temporalis muscle into deep surface
In patients with migrains, they often have pulsation of what artery that is visible from the side of the head?
Superficial Temporal Artery
Where is the infratemporal fossa located?
What is on either side lateral and medially?
- Inferior to the temporal fossa
- Ramus of the mandible is Lateral, wall of the pharynx is medial
What bones form the roof of the infratemporal fossa?
- Inferior surface of the greater wing of sphenoid
- Temporal Bone
What boney landmarks are within the the roof of the infratemporal fossa?
What does it open to superiorly?
- Foramen Ovale (more ant.)
- Foramen Spinosum
- Petrotympanic Fissure
Opens superiorly to temporal fossa
Roof of infratemporal fossa
What msucles attaches on the medial & lateral pterygoid plate?
The medial and lateral Ptrygoid
muscles of mastication
Roof of infratemporal fossa
What is medial to the infratemporal fossa?
The pharynx
What forms the lateral wall of the infratemporal fossa?
Boney & Soft Tissue
- Medial surface of the mandible (ramus)
- Lateral and Medial Pterygoid muscles.
What forms the medial wall anteriorly of the infratemporal fossa?
- Lateral Plate of the pterygoid Process
- Ptergomaxillary fissure
allows structures to pass from infratemporal and pterygopalatine fossa
Ptergomaxillary fissure
What forms the medial wall posteriorly of the infratemporal fossa?
- Pharynx
- 2 Muscles of the soft palate
Medial Posterior wall of infratemporal fossa
What are the 2 muscles of the soft pallete?
Function?
- Tensor palatini muscle
- Levator palatini muscle
Small m. but active role in swollowing major impact on soft pallete
What are the 7 major contents of the infratemporal fossa?
- Sphenomandibular ligament
- Medial and Lateral Pterygoid muscles
- Maxillary artery
- Mandibular nerve (V3)
- Branches of Facial nerve (VII)
- Glossopharyngeal Nerve (IX)
- Pterygoid plexus of veins
Explain the Sphenomandibular Ligament
1 of 5 ligaments that supports mandible
* Extracapsular for TMJ
* From spine of sphenoid to lingula near foramin on mandible
What ligament prevents the mandible from over opening?
Sphenomandibular ligament
When a patient has hypermobility of the mandible what may be affected?
A ligament (5) , ex. spehnomandibular ligament, that is not supoorting the mandible correctly
Why is the sphenomadibular ligament extra important?
2 functions
Restricts mandible im opening motion AND side to side motion.