connecting branch of vessel supplies blood to cheek buccinator muscle maxillary artery buccal artery arteria buccalis SCTID:148066005 The buccal artery (buccinator artery) is small and runs obliquely forward, between the Pterygoideus internus and the insertion of the Temporalis, to the outer surface of the Buccinator, to which it is distributed, anastomosing with branches of the external maxillary and with the infraorbital. [WP,unvetted]. FMA:49754 UBERON:0001618 NCIT:C52847 arteria buccinatoria Wikipedia:Buccal_artery MA:0001924 artery