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In order to talk, you sometimes open your mouth and sometimes close it. All the muscles around your mouth, therefore, work together. Check the 11 muscles shown below.

Also, the four muscles called the "muscles of mastication" work very actively to lift or push your mandible downwards, forwards and backwards, though they are not shown here.

  1. Platysma
  2. M. risorius
  3. M. levator anguli oris
  4. M. zytomaticus (major et minor)
  5. M. levator labii superioris
  6. M. angularis
  7. M. buccimator
  8. M. robicularis oris
  9. M. mentalis
  10. M. depressor labii inferioris
  11. M. depressor anguli oris

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