Artery Buccal

Buccal artery - what is it? **The cheek artery** needs no special introduction. This is a “tubular vessel” through which blood saturated with oxygen from the heart to the tissues and vice versa - carbon dioxide, metabolic products - from the tissues to the heart. Actually, this is one of the branches of the facial artery that exits into the cheek from its jaw part.

The buccal artery supplies the anterior third, skin and muscles of the cheek, tissues of the transition zone and lips. Then, dividing into the branching small buccal arteries of the same name, it supplies blood to the oral cavity and hard palate and dentition. The hard and soft palates are supplied by full-blooded arterial branches of the lesser palatine nerve. Along with “arterial nutrition”, the cheek and oral cavity also experience pain - but much less with oral bleeding and traumatic damage to the arteries. The fact is that the sensitive innervation is much stronger than the sympathetic, “parasympathetic” innervation of the arteries of the cheeks, which works together with the facial muscles, and is associated only with the work of the dental system.