Face Muscles

draws corner of mouth back and up

• zygomaticus

• Masseter

• Temporalis

• Mylohyoid

Tenses and Retracts your scalp

• depressor anguli oris

• digastric

• buccinator

• occipitalis

Closes eye

• zygomaticus

• orbicularis oculi

• platysma

• frontalis

Depresses hyoid bone and larynx

• sternohyoid

• pterygoids

• orbicularis oris

• stylohyoid

Depresses mandible and/or elevates larynx

• buccinator

• temporalis

• digastric

• massester

Raises eyebrows, wrinkles forehead

• stylohyoid

• occipitalis

• frontalis

• sternocleidomastoid

depresses corner of mouth

• zygomaticus

• depressor anguli oris

• masseter

• mylohyoid

Compresses cheeks

• stylohyoid

• digastric

• temporalis

• buccinator

Moves the mandible

• pterygoids

• temporalis

• depressor anguli oris

• zygomaticus

Depress the larynx, important for chewing

• frontalis

• sternothyroid

• masseter

• stylohyoid