V(2) Maxillary

Question 1

What is the function of V(2) maxillary nerve?

Answer 1

1. maxilla
2. skin around the maxilla area
3. maxillary teeth
4. nasal cavity
5. palate

Question 2

What is the neuron, fiber, or branch of V(2) maxillary nerve?

Answer 2

sensory (afferent)

Question 3

V(2), maxillary nerve has several major branches? What are they?

Answer 3

1. Zygomatic Nerve
2. Infraorbital Nerve
3. Anterior Superior Alveolar (ASA) Nerve
4. Middle Superior Alveolar (MSA) Nerve
5. Posterior Superior Alveolar (PSA) Nerve
6. Pterygopalatine Ganglion
7. Nasopalatine Nerve

Question 4

What is the function of the zygomatic nerve?

Answer 4

sensory for lacrimal gland, skin of cheek and temporal area

Question 5

What is the neuron, fiber, or branch of the zygomatic nerve?

Answer 5

sensory

Question 6

Where does the neuron, fiber, or branch of the zygomatic nerve travel through?
*don’t get hung up on this!

Answer 6

enters pterygopalatine fossa from the inferior orbital fissure

Question 7

What is the function of the infraorbital nerve?

Answer 7

eyelid, upper lip, side of nose

Question 8

Infraorbital is direct continuation of what?

Answer 8

direct continuation of V(2)

Question 9

What is the neuron, fiber, or branch of the infraorbital nerve?

Answer 9

sensory

Question 10

Where does the infraorbital nerve travel through?

Answer 10

travels through the infraorbital foramen

Question 11

What does the infraorbital nerve create when it passes through the infraorbital foramen?

Answer 11

it creates the ASA and MSA nerves

Question 12

Before the infraorbital nerve goes out of the infraorbital foramen it creates what?

Answer 12

creates the ASA & MSA nerves

Question 13

Which nerve does the infraorbital nerve create first?

Answer 13

the MSA nerve

Question 14

What nerve does the infraorbital nerve create after it creates the MSA nerve?

Answer 14

the ASA nerve