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Foundation for the Foundation

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Bones of the Face

  • Nose:  the two bones that sit side by side and form the bridge of the nose are called the nasal bones.

  • Temple: the slightly concave temple area at the side of our eyes has the temporal and sphenoid bones sitting underneath it.

  • Cheeks: our prominent cheeks are created by the zygomatic bones.

  • Jaw: consists of the upper jaw area made up of two maxilla, and the lower jaw – the moving and powerful mandible.

  • Eye: the eye socket or orbit is formed by seven articulated bones. The small thin lacrimal bone that sits in the inner eye, the frontal bone, the ethmoid bone, the zygomatic bone, the upper jaw maxillary bone, the tiny palatine bone in the back of the socket and the sphenoid bone

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Bones of the Head

  • Occipital bone: the bone that creates the curve at the back of the head just before the nape.

  • Parietal bone: sits under the crown.

  • Temporal bone: which helps to create the indentation at the temple.

  • Frontal bone: forms the forehead.

Muscles of the Face:

  • Orbicularis Oris Muscle: encircles the mouth;

  • Buccinator muscle: maxilla and mandible → angle of the mouth. It forms the muscular base of the cheek;

  • Levator labii superioris muscle: above the infraorbital foramen → upper lip;

  • Depressor labii inferioris muscle: mandible underneath the mental foramen → lower lip;

  • Levator labii superioris alaeque nasi muscle: medial orbital wall → upper lip and and nostrils;

  • Mentalis muscle: forms the furrow between chin and lip;

  • Risorius muscle: cheek → angle of the mouth;

  • Levator anguli oris muscle: underneath the infraorbital foramen → angle of the mouth;

  • Depressor anguli oris muscle: lower border of mandible → angle of the mouth;

  • Zygomaticus major and minor muscles: zygomatic arch → angle of the mouth;

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