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1. Discuss the anatomy of the trigeminal nerve and its branches. What 8 muscles does the nerve innervate? What input does the trigeminal nerve give to the tongue?
2. Discuss the anatomy of the facial nerve and its branches. What neck muscles is it motor to? What is its sensory input? What input does it give to the tongue?
3. You wake up one morning and find you have Bell's palsy. What will you do to establish the level of your palsy? How might we know if you stroked or have Bell's palsy? What should we do for you?
4. Diagram the opening of all ostia into the appropriate location in the nasopharynx.
5. Discuss each foramen on the base of a skull and what exits through it? What is "standing room only?"
6. What do the branchial arches become? What is Meckel's and Reichert's cartilage? Where do you find a branchial arch remnant and how do you treat it?
7. Tell us about the innervation of the tongue for sensation, movement, and taste.
8. Tell us about choanal atresia.
9. Tell us about cystic hygromas. What treatment should you give for them?
10. Discuss dermoids. What are the differences between midline and lateral eyebrow dermoids that you should think of? How would you work them up?
11. Discuss thyroglossal duct cysts and fistulas. What work-up is needed before you operate on them? What operation do you do?
12. Tell us about epulis and torus palatinus.
13. What is cherubism and fibrous dysplasia?