The mandible is having the condyloid process which articulates with the temporal fossa to form the temporomandibular joint, on which all the movements occur during the eating, chewing and even on talking also. It is having the articular facet on its head. This articulating facet is having different shapes and sizes which varies according to sex also. The shapes of condyloid processes are classi...

Dislocation of the mandible is a possible complication of direct tracheal laryngoscopy. The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is unique in that any movement of the bone always causes movement in both joints simultaneously. The entire TMJ is surrounded by a ligamentous capsule and is stabilized by 3 ligaments. Four muscles of mastication move the mandible with great power. The lateral pterygoid musc...

Anthropometric measurements were performed on the teeth, dental arch and mandible. Parameters for these three categories were compared by means of canonical analysis in order to understand the morphological relationships existing among them. The sagittally projected length of the mandible had a significant role in the correlation between the size of the teeth and the length of the dental arch, ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the precision of dimensional measurements of the mandible on orthopantomographic images and thus to evaluate their dimensional reliability. Different distances denoted by metal markers were measured on 25 dry mandibles. The same mandibles were then positioned in an orthopantomographic machine, and radiographic images of them were made. Measurements of t...

Fractures of the mandible occur with a greater frequency in the elderly. This study reports three cases of edentulous atrophic mandible fracture in elderly patients treated with open reduction technique. Three patients who presented with edentulous atrophic mandible fractures underwent surgical management using open reduction and internal fixation. After treatment, clinical evaluations and post...

Microdamage reduces bone mechanical properties and thus could possibly contribute to implant failure. The objective of this study was to investigate whether the diameter of mini-implants (MI) affects microdamage generation and whether this differs between the mandible and maxilla due to their contrasting cortical thicknesses. Methods: Maxillary and mandibular quadrants of 5 dogs were randomly a...

BACKGROUND The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) may be affected unilaterally or bilaterally in the course of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Permanent complications involve joint damage or stiffness and disorders in the development of the mandible, such as micrognathia, posterior rotation of the mandible, crowding and protrusion of the front teeth and malocclusion. OBJECTIVES The aim of the...

Aggressive central giant cell granuloma (ACGCG) is usually found in younger patients and is painful, grows rapidly, larger overall, often causes cortical perforation, root resorption and has a tendency to recur. This article is a case report of ACGCG in mandible. A girl 12 years old had features of typical giant cell reparative granuloma in the anterior mandible. After incision biopsy, she repo...

This thesis describes a methodology for forensic craniofacial reconstruction, de ned as the reproduction a subject's facial appearance from the skull and mandible for the purposes of identi cation. The focus of this work is on reproducing three dimensional facial shape from the shape of the skull and mandible of a subject. This task can be broken into two parts. First, a technique for determini...