2015
DOI: 10.5455/2320-6012.ijrms20150318
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Communicating root of auriculotemporal nerve with inferior alveolar nerve-looping around accessory meningeal artery

Abstract: Background: The auriculotemporal nerve has been described as having two roots in standard textbooks of anatomy. It lies on the tensor veli palatini muscle while passing backwards behind the lateral pterygoid muscle. It runs behind the temporomandibular joint after passing between the sphenomandibular ligament and the neck of mandible. It ascends over the posterior root of zygoma posterior to superficial temporal vessels. It gives superficial temporal branches and also branches to facial nerve and otic ganglion… Show more

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