Bell's palsy, a nerve condition that causes sudden facial paralysis on one side, affecting up to 30,000 Americans yearly. Learn the symptoms, treatments ...

For patients undergoing nerve transfer surgery for facial palsy, Botox injections can improve facial symmetry by reducing overactivity of the muscles on the unaffected side, suggests a study in ...

Abstract Introduction: The Marginal Mandibular Nerve (MMN), despite being didactically described as being a unique branch of the other branches of the Facial Nerve, has in practice an abundant ...

The auriculotemporal nerve is a branch of the mandibular nerve that provides sensation to several regions on the side of your head, including the area around the jaw, ear, and scalp. For much of its ...

The mandibular branch of the trigeminal nerve has motor nerve fibers too. It controls the muscles involved in chewing (masseter, temporal, pterygoid, mylohyoid, and digastric muscles).

Abstract Background: Pleomorphic Adenoma is the most prevalent salivary gland neoplasm accounting for about two-thirds of all salivary gland tumours. The facial nerve and branches are closely related ...

Trigeminal neuralgia medical cross section anatomy vector illustration diagram with facial neural network and pain areas.Head neurology scheme with ophthalmic, maxillary and mandibular branches.

A Seattle-area woman experiencing a rare case of facial paralysis had it reversed through a nerve transplant surgery at Providence.

The mandibular nerve is a branch of the trigeminal nerve. It supplies sensation and movement to the jaw and to parts of the face and head.

Three patients with oral-mandibular dystonia underwent CT-guided radiofrequency therapy by bilateral foramen ovale puncture of mandibular branches of trigeminal nerve, masticatory muscle spasm ...

The fifth cranial nerve, the trigeminal nerve, is responsible for sensation in the face and mastication. 4 It is divided into three branches — ophthalmic, maxillary, and mandibular (Figure 3).