The Face

Question 1

Name these muscles and their action

Answer 1

Question 2

What does cranial nerve 7 do?

Answer 2

Innervates all muscles of facial expression

Question 3

Which foramen does the facial nerve emere onto the side of the face?

Answer 3

The sytlomastoid foramen

Question 4

What are the 2 bony points on either side of the stylomastoid foramen?

Answer 4

Mastoid process and styloid process

Question 5

What does the facial nerve emere from before it splits into its terminal branches

Answer 5

Parotid gland

Question 6

Branches of facial expression

Answer 6

Question 7

What spares the forehead and what does not?

Answer 7

A stroke spares the forehead

Bells palsy does not

Question 8

What are the 3 salivary glands?

Answer 8

Submandibular

Sublingual

Parotid

Question 9

What does the long base of the parotid gland overlie?

Answer 9

Anterior border of the SCM muscle

Question 10

What does the parotid gland extend superiorly to?

Answer 10

The zygomatic arch

Question 11

What does the parotid gland extend inferiorly to?

Answer 11

The angle of the mandible

Question 12

What does the apex of the pyramid lie over?

Answer 12

The masseter

Question 13

What is just posterior to the gland?

Answer 13

Extends to jjst anterior to the external audioty meatus

Question 14

What type if gland is the parotid gland?

Answer 14

Exocrine

Exocrine have ducts

Endocrine go straight into blood stream

Question 15

What nerve emerges from the anterior border of the parotid gland?

Answer 15

Facial nerve- Buccal branch

Question 16

Where does the parotid duct run?

Answer 16

Runs forward, superficial to the masseter muscle and then pierces the buccinator muscle to open into the oral cavity

Question 17

What is the buccinator innervated by?

Answer 17

Facial nerve

Question 18

Where does the parotid duct open into the oral cavity?

Answer 18

Stenson’s duct- Upper second molar

Question 19

What structures pass into the parotid gland?

Answer 19

Facial nerve

ECA

Retromandibular vein

Question 20

What divison of the autonomic nervous system would be secretomotor to the parotid salviary gland?

Answer 20

Parasympathetic

Question 21

Which cranial nerve carries parasympathetic fibres destined for the parotid gland (i.e. pre-ganglionic fibres)?

Answer 21

Glossopharangeal nerve

Question 22

Where does the sympathetic innervation to the parotid gland originate from?

Answer 22

Superior cervical ganglion

Question 23

Answer 23

Question 24

What is the facial artery and superficial temproal artery a branch of?

Answer 24

ECA

Question 25

What does the facial artery wind around to reach the face?

Answer 25

Mandible bone

Question 26

Which muscle on the side of the face lies immediately posterior to the facial artery as it enters onto the face

Answer 26

Masseter

Question 27

Just before the facial artery enters onto the side of the face which gland does it groove?

Answer 27

Submandibular salivary gland

Question 28

Where does the facial artery end?

Answer 28

Ends as the angular artery at the corner of the eye (it anastomoses)

Question 29

What does the facial vein and superficial temproal vein drain into?

Answer 29

IJV then brachiocephalic