Buccal branch of the facial nerve
- Buccal branch of the facial nerve
Infobox Nerve
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Latin = rami buccales nervi facialis
GraySubject = 202
GrayPage = 905
Caption = Plan of the facial and intermediate nerves and their communication with other nerves. (Labeled at center bottom, third from the bottom.)
Caption2 = The nerves of the scalp, face, and side of neck.
Innervates = cheek
BranchFrom = facial nerve
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DorlandsPre = r_02
DorlandsSuf = 12689160
The Buccal Branches of the facial nerve (infraorbital branches), of larger size than the rest of the branches, pass horizontally forward to be distributed below the orbit and around the mouth.
Branches
The "superficial branches" run beneath the skin and above the superficial muscles of the face, which they supply: some are distributed to the Procerus, joining at the medial angle of the orbit with the infratrochlear and nasociliary branches of the ophthalmic.
The "deep branches" pass beneath the Zygomaticus and the Quadratus labii superioris, supplying them and forming an infraorbital plexus with the infraorbital branch of the maxillary nerve. These branches also supply the small muscles of the nose.
The "lower deep branches" supply the Buccinator and Orbicularis oris, and join with filaments of the buccinator branch of the mandibular nerve.
ee also
* Buccal nerve
External links
* - "Branches of Facial Nerve (CN VII)"
* (NormanAnatomyFig|parotid3)
* (NormanAnatomyFig|VII)
* http://www.dartmouth.edu/~humananatomy/figures/chapter_47/47-5.HTM
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