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Anatomy
Vessels and
Nerves
By : Dr Shikha Garg
Deptt of Periodontics
face
• Boundaries : Extends superiorly to the hair
line ,inferiorly to the chin and base of
mandible, and on each side to auricle
• Forehead is common to both scalp and face.
• Skin: very vascular
• Due to rich vascularity face blush and
blanch.
• Wounds of face bleed profusely but heal
rapidly.
• Facial skin is rich in sebaceous gland and
sweat gland.
• Sebaceous gland keep the skin oily but also
cause acne in adults.
• Laxity of skin facilitates rapid spread of oedema.
• Renal oedema appears first in the eyelids and face before spreading to
other parts of the body.
• Boils in the nose and ear acutely painful due to the fixity of the skin to
the underlying cartilages
• Facial skin is very elastic and thick because the facial muscles are
inserted into it. the wounds of the face therefore tend to gape.
SUPERFACIAL FASCIA
It contains
1.facial muscles
2.vessels and nerves
3.fat
• Extending from
zygomatic bone to the
upper lip
• Action-elevates and
everts the upper lip
increase the nasolabial
furrow
Depressor labii inferioris
• Muscle attached to lower
lip
• Arises-oblique line of
mandible
• Quadrilateral sheet
• Inserted into skin of
lower lip
• Action-it draws the lower
lip downward and
laterally
• Expression-irony
Risorius
• arises-Parotid fascia,as a
continuation of posterior
fibers of platysma
• Insert-angle of mouth
• Muscle of chin
• Conical in shape
• Arises-incisive fossa
• Insert-skin of chin
• Action-puckers the chin
• Protrudes the lower lip in
drinking
• Expression of disdain
Muscles of auricle
• Auricularis anterior
• Auricularis posterior
• Auricularis superior
§Functionally unimportant
• Action-terror,fright,horror
Sensory Nerves of the Face
The skin of the face is supplied by the
trigeminal nerve (V), except for the small
area over the angle of the mandible and
the parotid gland which is supplied by the
great auricular nerve (C2 and C3)
• Buccal glands
• Molar mucous glands
• Labial glands
REFRENCES
• Gray’s Anatomy 40th edition.
• B.D. Chaurasia human anatomy 4th edition vol 3 head and neck.
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