It descends through the infratemporal fossa[1] as part of a neurovascular bundle with the inferior alveolar nerve and vein to the mandibular foramen where it enters and passes anteriorly inside the mandible, supplying the body of mandible and the dental pulp of the lower molar and premolar teeth.

[2] It passes inferior-ward through the infratemporal fossa[1] as part of a neurovascular bundle with the inferior alveolar nerve and vein to the mandibular foramen.

[2] In the infratemporal fossa, it is situated posterior to the inferior alveolar nerve, lateral to the skull, and medial to the sphenomandibular ligament.

[1] The inferior alveolar artery emits the mylohyoid branch before entering the mandibular foramen.

[1] This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 561 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918) ocular group: central retinal