Overview: Despite their critical importance, the majority of research on skeletal muscle basically has ignored this collection of muscles.These muscles are complex, and therefore extremely difficult to study.Th.Of the approximately 640 muscles in the human body, over 10% of them are found in the craniofacial region. The craniofacial muscles are involved in a number of crucial non-locomotor activities, and are critical to the most basic functions of life, including vision, taste, chewing and food manipulation, swallowing, respiration, speech, as well as regulating facial expression and controll
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