Muscle, Subcutaneous

Subcutaneous muscles are called (they are also called muscles of the skin, subcutaneous, facial, facial), located in the superficial layers of the facial muscles. Facial muscles perform a variety of actions: they change the position of facial elements (mobility of the eyelids, position of the lips, nose, ears, etc.), provide chewing, swallowing, and also change the color of some surfaces of the facial skin (depending on the intensity of blood supply) . All this is achieved by the fact that the muscle, when contracting, changes the strength, shape and volume of the skin fold attached to the bone and other elements of the facial muscles, but does not change its location. Thus, the mechanism of action of the subcutaneous muscles differs significantly from the mechanism of action of the rest of the muscle groups of our body: when they contract, their location does not change, but the volume of the facial fold changes. The face has only about a hundred such muscles, they are firmly or partially connected with other muscle structures and provide