Question #519
Which of the following is not a branch of the mandibular nerve
The branches of the mandibular nerve can be divided into sensory and motor. The motor branches are principally named after the muscles they innervate:
- Nerve to mylohyoid (also innervates the anterior belly of digastric)
- Deep temporal nerve
- Nerve to lateral pterygoid
- Nerve to medial pterygoid (also innervates tensor tympani)
- Masseteric nerve
The sensory branches can be remembered as BAIL:
- Buccal nerve (this is a purely sensory nerve and does not supply buccinator!)
- Auriculotemporal nerve
- Inferior alveolar nerve (gives both nerve to mylohyoid and mental nerve)
- Lingual nerve
In addition there is a small meningeal branch
