A young child is brought to your office by her parents after falling on a board with an exposed nail, which passed up towards the oral cavity halfway between the tip of her chin and the hyoid, and approximately 1 cm to the left of the midline. The structures pierced in order are:

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The nail would pierce the skin, then the anterior digastric muscle, followed by the mylohyoid muscle, then the geniohyoid muscle, and finally the genioglossus muscle.

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