The formation of clear and distinct sounds in speech.
What is Articulation?
Superficial and easily palpated. They can become painful when dental assistants use improper posture while assisting.
What are the muscles of the neck?
Closes and puckers lips: aids in chewing and speaking
What is Orbicularis Oris?
This muscle draws the tongue and hyoid bone forward.
What is Geniohyoid?
This Progressive Canadian Prime minister did blackface in his college years.
Who is Justin Trudeau?
The only muscle of the tongue not innervated by the hypoglossal nerve.
What is the palatoglossus?
These Muscles are paired muscles that insert on skin tissue and are controlled by the 7th cranial nerve (facial nerve)
What are the muscles of facial expression?
Raises and wrinkles skin of chin and pushes up lower lip. (I like to call it the muscle soul patch)
What is Mentalis?
Forms floor of mouth; elevates (raises) tongue and depresses (lowers) jaw
What is Mylohyoid?
The number of gifs of Arnold Schwarzenegger licking there was on slide 26
What is 6?
Muscles responsible for swallowing and chewing.
What are intrinsic muscles?
These muscles work with the TMJ to make all movements of the mandible possible and are controlled by the 5th cranial nerve (trigeminal nerve)
What are the muscles of mastication?
This muscle compresses the cheek against teeth and retracts angle of mouth
What is the buccinator?
Each demarcates a superior portion of the anterior cervical triangle, forming a submandibular triangle on each side of the neck.
What are the digastric muscles?
This former governor of California who hails from Austria (Hint: NOT HITLER) was shown on every slide.
Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger?
One of the two groups of tongue muscles?
What is intrinsic or extrinsic?
These muscles are located between the mandibular and hyoid bone.
What are the muscles of the floor of the mouth?
Draws angles of the mouth upward and backward, as in laughing. (Seen very prominently in the gif of Nacho Libre)
What is Zygomatic Major?
This muscle assists in swallowing by raising the hyoid bone.
What is Stylohyoid?
This studly group ABSolutely desTROYed the Athenians in the Peloponnesian war.
Who are the Spartans?
This famous member of KISS is iconic for his long tongue. (Hint: he was in the presentation)
Who is Gene Simmons?
The name given to the fans of Justin Beiber.
What is a Belieber?
This person lights up my life more than words could describe.
Who is Morgan Lipman? (I will also accept Gal Gadot or Kathy Bates)
The first person to floor it enough in a plane to break the sound barrier.
Who is Chuck Yeager?
In "Dantes Inferno" Satan is feasting upon Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and him.
Who is Judas Iscariot?