The entire lacrimal system, including the gland, lake, and sac are innervated by three separate nerves, but none of them are the oculomotor nerve. The lacrimal gland gets its sensory innervations from the ophthalmic nerve. The preganglionic parasympathetic innervation comes from the facial nerve, the postganglionic parasympathetic neurons go on to join the maxillary nerve and branch into the zygomatic nerve until it becomes the zygomaticotemporal nerve and finally joins the lacrimal nerve that innervates the lacrimal gland. The sympathetic innervation essentially follows the parasympathetic path of innervation and comes from the superior cervical ganglion. It travels along the plexus around the internal carotid artery until it joins the parasympathetic fibers (Drake, Richard L., A. Wayne Vogl, and Adam W.M. Mitchell, 2012). None of these connect or involve the oculomotor nerve and therefore this injury would not involve dry
The entire lacrimal system, including the gland, lake, and sac are innervated by three separate nerves, but none of them are the oculomotor nerve. The lacrimal gland gets its sensory innervations from the ophthalmic nerve. The preganglionic parasympathetic innervation comes from the facial nerve, the postganglionic parasympathetic neurons go on to join the maxillary nerve and branch into the zygomatic nerve until it becomes the zygomaticotemporal nerve and finally joins the lacrimal nerve that innervates the lacrimal gland. The sympathetic innervation essentially follows the parasympathetic path of innervation and comes from the superior cervical ganglion. It travels along the plexus around the internal carotid artery until it joins the parasympathetic fibers (Drake, Richard L., A. Wayne Vogl, and Adam W.M. Mitchell, 2012). None of these connect or involve the oculomotor nerve and therefore this injury would not involve dry