License Image The muscles that control facial expression, also called mimetic muscles. These muscles are controlled by the facial nerve, which has 5 main divisions described below. Five main divisions of the facial nerve and the muscles they control: 1) temporal The frontalis muscle of the forehead lifts the eyebrows. The anterior and superior auricular […]
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Facial Nerve
License Image This illustration depicts the main motor branches of the facial nerve that control the mimetic muscles of the face, called the “muscles of expression”. Muscles of Expression These are the superficial muscles around the eye, nose, mouth, ear, forehead, scalp and the platysma in the neck. The facial nerve is the seventh cranial […]
