Face and Parotid Flashcards
1
Q
How to remember the branches of the facial nerve?
A
Two Zebras Bit My Cat Posteriorly!
- Temporal
- Zygomatic
- Buccal
- Mandibular
- Cerbical
- Posterior Auricular
2
Q
Buccinator muscle
-function
A
-Contracts during chewing and keeps food in the oral cavity
3
Q
Buccinator muscle
-innervation
A
Buccal Branch of CN VII (Facial)
4
Q
What supplies sensation to the skin over the buccinator muscle?
A
Buccal branch of the maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve (V3)
5
Q
Danger Triangle of the Face
A
Infections may pass retrogradely into skull via facial veins to:
-Opthalmic veins to the Cavernous sinus to the dural sinuses to the brain
6
Q
Structures within the parotid gland
A
- External carotid artery and its branches
- Retromandibular veins and their tributaries
- Terminal branches of the facial nerve
- Auriculotemporal nerve (V3)
