(n.) The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radiographic changes in the jawbones including alterations of the laminae durae were observed in twenty-three children.
(2) You can tell these ones are evil, because they are scowling, have weirder facial piercings, and wear epaulettes made of human jawbones.
(3) A radiographic survey of the jawbone adjacent to the teeth revealed a high incidence of bone pathosis in 889 randomly chosen patients.
(4) Its remains were recently put on display in the Museum of Docklands, although its jawbones stood as a roadside arch in Dagenham, still remembered in the name of Whalebone Lane.
(5) In the eighteenth century, a pedestrian strolling around Georgian London may have witnessed the bizarre sight of an ageing gentleman parading the streets on a painted horse and brandishing the jawbone of an ass.
(6) A total of 114 tumours of the jawbones was confirmed in a survey of 204,583 surgical specimens in Chinese in the University Department of Pathology, Hong Kong from 1963-1982.
(7) Bone-appositioning inflammatory processes (condensing osteitis), on the other hand, appeared mostly in the mandible, very often involving the first molar, thus indicating the differing biologic behavior of the two jawbones.
(8) In Maxillo-facial surgery: for orbital floor, maxillary sinus and jawbone reconstruction.
(9) Since then, President Petro Poroshenko’s jawboning has brought the exchange rate back close to the level on which Ukraine’s 2015 budget was based.
(10) Neurilemmomas arising within the jawbones are rare.
(11) Jawbone, considered Fitbit’s long term rival, has had setbacks in the last year, with product delays hurting sales at a time when Fitbit sold 3.9m trackers in the first quarter of this year.
(12) It could walk on four legs on land and in water, and heard by picking up vibrations through its jawbone, just as modern whales do.
(13) The eighth case of a benign osteoblastoma of the jawbones is presented.
(14) Misfit between a jawbone-anchored bridge and the abutments in the patient's jaw may result in, for example, fixture fracture.
(15) According to his description of the martyrdom of the Saint, her teeth were extracted and her jawbones broken.
(16) With products such as the FitBit One, Jawbone Up and Nike+ FuelBand boasting impressive sales numbers (the FuelBand reportedly sold out within four hours of its launch), it seems that self-tracking is finding traction and on the way to becoming an ubiquitous feature of daily life.
(17) Periodontal disease is the collective term given to a variety of inflammatory conditions in the tissue that supports and secures the teeth to the jawbone.
(18) Thirty-four children with chronic renal failure were examined to evaluate the character and frequency of radiographic changes in the jawbones as related to radiographic abnormalities in other skeletal regions and laboratory data.
(19) At the lower part of the lingual surface of the teeth in the anterior row and the labial surface of the teeth in the posterior row the bundles of fibrils start at the dentine and some fibrils run through connective tissue, while others terminate in projections of the jawbones.
(20) Faces having the same anteroposterior value for the jawbones can have very different ANB angles (Figs.
Maxilla
Definition:
(n.) The bone of either the upper or the under jaw.
(n.) The bone, or principal bone, of the upper jaw, the bone of the lower jaw being the mandible.
(n.) One of the lower or outer jaws of arthropods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Retrognathia or retrusion of the maxilla and mid-face is present in about one-third of treated cleft palate patients.
(2) A small number of individuals operated during adolescence had also a shorter depth of the maxilla similarly as patients operated upon during early childhood.
(3) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(4) It was smaller than that reported for patients who had received stabilization of the maxilla with intraosseous and maxillomandibular wiring.
(5) The author has proved by the examination of the lateral x-ray images of hundred patients with progenia that with 64% of the patients the front part of the maxilla alveolaris extension was mildly retarded in growth.
(6) Periodontal pockets were more frequently observed in maxillae than mandibles.
(7) In Paper V, group A, the fixture-supported prostheses were installed in the maxilla and occluded with tooth-supported fixed partial dentures whereas in group B, the arrangements were analogous to those in Papers I-IV.
(8) One type of antral mucocele, commonly seen in Japan, is referred to as a postoperative maxillary cyst and is identical to the surgical ciliated cyst of the maxilla originally reported by Gregory and Shafer.
(9) Measurements of the cranial base angle and the prognathism of the maxilla and the mandible were performed on radiographs of cranial midsagittal tissue blocks of 52 fetuses with a gestational age from 13 to 27 weeks.
(10) The immobilization successfully constrained the anteroinferior displacement of the maxilla and zygomatic bone on the fused side.
(11) The edentulous posterior maxilla often has inadequate bone for endosteal implants.
(12) The three cases presented in this paper all had different orthodontic and surgical treatment approaches according to the individual involvement of the nose, maxillae, mouth and other facial features.
(13) The authors categorized the height, width, and anteroposterior dimensions of the edentulous maxillae.
(14) A rare case of angiosarcoma of the maxilla is presented.
(15) But we can say that a maldevelopment of the maxilla may be expected to occur in the case of any surgery performed.
(16) The majority of maxillae were moved in more than one plane of space.
(17) We present a case of melanotic neuroectodermal tumor in the maxilla that followed an aggressively malignant course.
(18) Secondary bone grafting of the maxilla in the mixed transitional dentition stage has become a well-accepted procedure in the surgical protocol for rehabilitation of patients with residual alveolar clefts.
(19) An NSAr or NSBa angle higher than the mean value plus one standard deviation, it is associated with of the maxilla retrognathism and contrariwise.
(20) Supplemental teeth usually occur in the maxilla and occasionally in the mandible, generally involving the permanent lateral incisors.