THE FACE

A Muscular Masterpiece

There are 43 muscles in the face, most of which are controlled by the seventh cranial nerve (also known as the facial nerve). This nerve exits the cerebral cortex and emerges from your skull just in front of your ears. It then splits into five primary branches: temporal, zygomatic, buccal, mandibular and cervical.

It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile, without facial muscles the following everyday functions would not be possible.

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chewing

talking

facial expressions

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Of all these muscles, the largest group is associated with the mouth. They are the ones that allow you to open and close your mouth, move your lips and the corners of your mouth and all the movements needed to do things like whistle, smile, talk and eat. The buccinator and masseter muscles are used in chewing. These muscles help move food from the front of the mouth back to the throat. The masseter is the strongest jaw muscle - it helps move the jaw bone up and down as you chew these are aided by temporalis and pterygoid muscles which are smaller but help move the bottom jaw.

Whilst we give these muscles a workout thousands of times per day we don’t often think about how they relate to the way we look. But if you really think about it the facial muscles probably work harder than any other muscles in the body and their effect on our looks can be quite staggering. Have you noticed after a holiday people often say how well you look, this is because your facial muscles have relaxed due to less or zero stress.

Josef spent years sitting in on lecturing autopsies learning everything he could about the muscle structure of the face and how it could be rejuvenated by specific massage techniques.

The Just Josef Non Surgical Face Lift is the culmination of 12  years of research.