(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.
Maxillar
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Maxillary
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore, it is of great significance for the study of prosthodontics to assess what distribution of mechanical strain the maxillar and mandibular bones exhibit to occlusal force at mastication.
(2) Clinical examination, however, revealed transversal maxillar compression at the affected side in three out of eight unilateral cases.
(3) Patients with cleft formation: The sinus maxillares by female patients are significant smaller than the sinus maxillares by the control group.
(4) The floor is stronger the less surface there is and the more supported it is by trabeculae of the maxillar sinus.
(5) Clinical efficacies of MEPM in 16 patients with bacterial infections (1 with purulent meningitis, 1 with suspected subdural abscess, 2 with suspected sepsis, 4 with pneumonia, 1 with acute maxillar sinusitis, 2 with cervical abscess, 1 with acute gastroenteritis, 2 with skin soft tissue infection and 2 with urinary tract infection) were evaluated as excellent in 7 patients, good in 8 patients and fair in 1 patient with an efficacy rate of 93.8%.
(6) The sinus maxillares are greater by female patients than by male patients.
(7) Freshly extracted central maxillar incisors were divided in three groups: I 10 specimens were used to quantity the rate of the tracer penetration through the apical foramen and apical ramification; II 10 specimens were used for the measurement of central root portion permeability for the same tracer; III.
(8) Interdisciplinary management as performed at the Cleft-Palate Clinic, in an integrated approach involving specialists in maxillo-facial surgery, maxillar orthopedics, genetics, social work and mental hygiene, pursuing to reestablish the stomatological and psychological functions of children afflicted by cleft palate, is amply described.
(9) A report on 2940 x-rayfilm observations to show the behaviour of the pneumatisation of the maxillar sinus is beeing given.
(10) In order to reveal some functional agreement between an anterior and posterior guidance, the analysis of the functional morphology of antero-maxillar teeth in relation to their skeletal context was proposed, in a study of 33 cases, so as to correlate the condylar steepness measured by axiography.
(11) The morphometric examination concerned the following parameters: in maxillar frontal and posterior arc width and height; vertical and sagital dimension as well as length of incisive crown in the mandibule.
(12) The occlusal preparation permits us a global and simultaneous mobilisation of the two maxillars which are ostesynthezed in posterior skeletal disclosing.
(13) A report on 301 x-rayfilms from cleft patients and 120 x-rayfilms of a control group to show the behaviour of the pneumatisation of the maxillar sinus is being given.
(14) Testings were done on mesial and distal tooth surfaces in four groups of human lateral teeth: maxillar premolars and molars and mandibular premolars and molars.
(15) The alveolar process atrophies the first, causing the reduction in the maxillar length and width in the molar, as well as in the anterior part of the bone.
(16) In this paper, we put forward the hypothesis that the more complex transfer function can be explained with reference to the shunting effect of the sinus maxillares and the sinus frontales.
(17) The fetus displayed dysmorphic features resembling the 18p-syndrome, such as decreased head circumference, slightly receding forehead, hypertelorism, epicanthus, horizontal palpebral fissures, depressed nasal bridge, long philtrum, carp mouth, irregular crenated maxillar alveolar ridge, retrognathia, lowset dysplastic ears with posterior rotation, edema of neck, hands and feet respectively, fingers with drop-shaped tips, short first toes with dysplastic nails, hypoplastic male external genitalia.
(18) In only one patient with dural AVM, was catheterization with this catheter not successful, and that was because the distal portion of the internal maxillar artery was extremely tortuous because of severe atherosclerosis.
(19) By clefts of the primary and secondary palate (L-A-P-clefts) are the sinuses maxillares statistically larger than by clefts of the primary palate (L-A-clefts) and by subtotally and totally clefts of the secondary palate (P-clefts).
(20) Three cases of multiloculated lesion of the jaw (two in the mandible and one in the maxillar) closely mimicking ameloblastoma are described.