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The prime movers of jaw closure and biting are the: Group of answer choices: - buccinator and masseter muscles. - temporalis and lateral pterygoid muscles. - temporalis and buccinator muscles. - masseter and temporalis muscles. 

          The prime movers of jaw closure and biting are the:
Group of answer choices:
- buccinator and masseter muscles.
- temporalis and lateral pterygoid muscles.
- temporalis and buccinator muscles.
- masseter and temporalis muscles.

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00:01 Hello students, in this session it is talking about the chewing muscles of mouth.
00:10 It is saying that with chewing muscles helping protraction of mandible and helping side to side grinding of food.
00:32 By looking at this picture we can understand that the pterygoid muscles will help in the lateral movement of the food i .e.
00:45 Side to side movement...
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