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Which muscle is responsible for retracting the mandible during the side to side grinding movement?
Which muscle is responsible for retracting the mandible during the side to side grinding movement?
- Medial pterygoid
- Masseter
- Lateral pterygoid
- Temporalis (correct)
What is the nerve supply of the Lateral pterygoid muscle?
What is the nerve supply of the Lateral pterygoid muscle?
- Temporal branch of mandibular nerve
- Masseteric nerve
- Nerve to medial pterygoid
- Anterior division of mandibular nerve (correct)
Which of the following muscles inserts into the coronoid process and ramus of mandible?
Which of the following muscles inserts into the coronoid process and ramus of mandible?
- Temporalis (correct)
- Lateral pterygoid
- Medial pterygoid
- Masseter
What is the origin of the Medial pterygoid muscle?
What is the origin of the Medial pterygoid muscle?
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Which muscle depresses the mandible and protrudes it?
Which muscle depresses the mandible and protrudes it?
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