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Infraorbital margin

Lower margin of the eye socket

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The infraorbital margin is the lower margin of the eye socket.

01Structure

It consists of the zygomatic bone and the maxilla, on which it separates the anterior and the orbital surface of the body of the maxilla.

02Function

It is an attachment for the levator labii superioris muscle.

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