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Lateral nasal branch of facial artery

blood vessel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ6495641 ↗
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The lateral nasal branch of facial artery (lateral nasal artery) is derived from the facial artery as that vessel ascends along the side of the nose.

Supplies

It supplies the ala and dorsum of the nose, anastomosing with its fellow superior labial artery (septal and alar branches), with the dorsal nasal branch of the ophthalmic artery, and with the infraorbital branch of the internal maxillary.

If the posterior lateral nasal artery is superficial in the nasal wall, a laceration may occur during an aggressive curettage. A sinus floor elevation procedure requires a separation and elevation of the sinus lining with subsequent introduction of space maintaining graft material. During the lining elevation this artery may be cut in the osseous nasal wall.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lateral nasal branch of facial artery” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.