There are 12 pairs of cranial nerves that transmit motor and sensory information from areas including the face, mouth, eyes, ...

The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia ...

which is the largest cranial nerve and sensory nerve of the head and the face. It is also the motor nerve for the muscles required to chew. The nerve sends impulses of touch, pain, pressure ...