Bangkok: Bangkok, city, capital, and chief port of Thailand. It is the only cosmopolitan city in a country of small towns and villages and is Thailandâs cultural and commercial centre. Bangkok is located on the delta of the Chao Phraya River, about 25 miles (40 km) from the Gulf of Thailand. It was formerly
This muscle inserts â all the muscles of mastication inserts onto the mandible because the mandible is the bone that moves to cause mastication. Itâs the bone which is involved in chewing. The temporalis inserts onto the coronoid process of the mandible. Thatâs this anterior process here. If we just have a look at that, it just inserts here.
The muscles of mastication move the jaws to bring the teeth into intermittent contact, repeatedly occluding and opening. As chewing continues, the food is made softer and warmer, and the enzymes in saliva begin to break down carbohydrates in the food. After chewing, the food (now called a bolus) is swallowed. It enters the esophagus and via peristalsis continues on to the stomach, where the next step of digestion occurs.