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

Muscle that elevates the eyebrows and wrinkles the forehead

• Frontalis

• Occipitals

• Corrugator

• Obicularis Oculi

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

• Nasalis

• Buccinator

• Orbicularis Oris

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

• Masseter

• Buccinator

• Zygomaticus Major

• Zygomaticus Minor

Depresses the medial end of the eyebrows wrinkles the nose

• temporalis muscle

• procerus muscle

• zygomaticus muscle

• depressor anguli oris

Frown muscle

• buccinator

• risorius

• depressor anguli oris

• zygomaticus