List
Development
of face

Meckel’s cartilage
Place where it is found; cartilage of which
arch; the week at which it is formed – from which structure – forms which
structures – at which week – how it acts as a scaffold for the mandible and the
persistence of the cartilage in adult as the inner ear bones- how mandible
develops from this including the type of ossification
Development of Maxilla & Mandible:
Maxilla: head
development – begins/ends at which week – mesenchymal prominence – development
of medial and nasal process- descent and movement of the process – concept of
premaxilla, primary palate, secondary palate – descent of tongue – fusion of
processes – mechanism involved – clinical significance of non-fusion – clefts
of maxilla – Diagrams
Mandible: week of initiation in IUL – Meckel’s cartilage
formation – Place where it is found; cartilage of which arch; the week at which
it is formed – from which structure – forms which structures – at which week –
how it acts as a scaffold for the mandible and the persistence of the cartilage
in adult as the inner ear bones- how mandible develops from this including the
type of ossification – Growth of mandible – development of lingual, nerve innervation’s and blood supply
Development of mandible: 
Week of initiation in IUL – Meckel’s cartilage
formation – Place where it is found; cartilage of which arch; the week at which
it is formed – from which structure – forms which structures – at which week –
how it acts as a scaffold for the mandible and the persistence of the cartilage
in adult as the inner ear bones- how mandible develops from this including the
type of ossification – Growth of mandible – development of lingual, nerve
innervation’s and blood supply – Diagrams
Development of middle
third of face: 
4th week IUL – facial prominence’s – 1st pharyngeal arches appear – Maxillary prominence – mandibular prominence – frontonasal prominence – nasal (olfactory) placodes – nasal pits – nasal prominence – lateral – medial – nasolacrimal groove  – nasolacrimal duct- lacrimal sac – formation
of cheeks
and maxilla. Nose- 5 facial prominence’s – the frontal – medial nasal prominence – lateral nasal prominence.
Skin development – innervation’s – Reichert Cartilage – Diagrams
Derivatives of second
pharyngeal arch: 
Hyoid arch- Reichert’s cartilage-
stapes, styloid process of the temporal bone, stylohyoid ligament,
and ventrally,
the
lesser horn and upper part of
the body of the hyoid bone. 
Muscles of the hyoid arch – stapedius, stylohyoid, posterior belly of the digastric, auricular, and
muscles of facial expression.
The facial nerve, the nerve of
the second arch, supplies all of these muscles. Diagrams

Development of tongue: 
4 weeks in the form of two lateral
lingual swellings
and one medial
swelling,
the tuberculum impar – first
pharyngeal arch –
copula, or
hypobranchial eminence – a
third median swelling, formed by the posterior part of the fourth arch –
laryngeal orifice – relationship with arytenoid
swellings  –
lateral
lingual swellings – increase in size – tuberculum impar and merge – body of the
tongue. Tongue mucosa – from the first pharyngeal arch –
sensory innervation’s – terminal sulcus. Root of
tongue and the 2nd, 3rd and 4th
pharyngeal
arch.  tongue muscles – myoblasts  –
occipital
somites – hypoglossal nerve. Sensory, motor and taste supply to tongue. Two
diagrams. 



(A Special Thanks to Colleagues at Ragas Dental College & Hospital, Chennai)

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