Dentist : Do you know?

• Do you know?
• Trigeminal Nerve is known as "Dentist Nerve"- is responsible for sensation in the face.The fifth nerve is primarily a sensory nerve, but it also has certainmotor functions (biting, chewing, and swallowing)
•  Trigeminal Nerve is fifth cranial nerve - there are 13 cranial nerves. Yes I said 13 & not 12. Cranial Nerve Zero(The terminal nerve) -  discovered by German scientist Gustav Fritsch in 1878 in the brains of sharks. It was first found in humans in 1913,
• SOURCE : Trigeminal Nerve  ,  Cranial Nerve Zero (The terminal nerve)