Buccal nerve
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| Nerve: Buccal nerve | |
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| Sensory areas of the head, showing the general distribution of the three divisions of the fifth nerve. (Buccal nerve labeled at center left.) | |
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| Mandibular division of the trifacial nerve. | |
| Latin | nervus buccalis |
| Gray's | subject #200 895 |
| Innervates | lateral pterygoid muscle, cheek |
| From | mandibular nerve |
| Dorlands / Elsevier | n_05/12565268 |
A branch of the mandibular nerve (which is itself a branch of the trigeminal nerve), the buccal nerve transmits sensory information from skin over the buccal membrane (in general, the cheek) and from the second and third molar teeth.
It courses between the two heads of the lateral pterygoid muscle, underneath the tendon of the temporalis muscle, and then under the masseter muscle to connect with the buccal branches of the facial nerve on the surface of the buccinator muscle.
Small branches of the buccal nerve innervate the lateral pterygoid muscle.
The facial nerve (CN VII) also has buccal branches, which carry motor innervation to the buccinator muscle, a muscle of facial expression. This should not be confused with the buccal branch of the trigeminal nerve, which supplies motor innervation to the lateral pterygoid, a muscle of mastication. This follows from the trigeminal (V3) supplying all muscles of mastication and the facial (VII) supplying all muscles of facial expression.
Additional images
 The nerves of the scalp, face, and side of neck. |
References
- "Nerve, buccal." Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 27th ed. (2000). ISBN 0-683-40007-X
- Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice. (2005). ISBN 0-443-07168-3
External links
- SUNY Figs 27:03-03
- MedEd at Loyola GrossAnatomy/h_n/cn/cn1/cnb3.htm
- Buccal+nerve at eMedicine Dictionary
- Norman/Georgetown lesson4 (mandibularnerve)
- Norman/Georgetown cranialnerves (V)
The cranial nerves: trigeminal nerve | |||||||||
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| ophthalmic (V1) | frontal: supratrochlear - supraorbital (lateral branch, medial branch)
nasociliary: long ciliary - infratrochlear - posterior ethmoidal - anterior ethmoidal (external nasal, internal nasal) - sensory root of ciliary ganglion (ciliary ganglion) lacrimal | ||||||||
| maxillary (V2) |
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| mandibular (V3) |
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