Muscles of the face

Hey, wanna make eye contact? These muscles around your eye help you bat your eyes; closes the eyelids and enables you to wink at the special person!

• Orbicularis Oris

• Orbicularis Oculi

• Corrugator

• Frontalis

Contraction of this muscle enables you to kiss! #smooches

• Orbicularis Oris

• Orbicularis Oculi

• Corrugator

• Occipitals

This muscle closes the mouth by raising your jawbone~ elevates the mandible (also used in chewing)

• Buccinator

• Zygomaticus Major

• Zygomaticus Minor

• Masseter

This large neck muscle helps rotate the head upward and side to side

• Masseter

• Buccinator

• Platysma

• Sternoclidomastoid

Muscle that elevates the eyebrows and wrinkles the forehead

• Frontalis

• Occipitals

• Corrugator

• Obicularis Oculi

Muscle that pulls the scalp posteriorly; elevates the eyebrows

• Occipitalis

• Frontalis

• Corrugator

• Zygomaticus Minor

This mouth muscle is one that is used for chewing~elevates the mandible; retracts the mandible (posterior fibers)* a powerful chewing muscle.

Clenching your teeth may lead to tension headaches.

• Temporalis

• Frontalis

• Occipitals

• Corrugator

Muscle that elevates and draws the corner of the mouth laterally

• Zygomaticus Major

• Nasalis

• Buccinator

• Orbicularis Oris

Muscle that draws the corners of the mouth down; it aids in depression of the mandible.

• Mentalis

• Platysma

• Sternoclidomastoid

• Risorius

This muscle pulls the corner of mouth laterally; presses the cheek against the teeth.

• Masseter

• Buccinator

• Zygomaticus Major

• Zygomaticus Minor