Your skull is made up of 22 bones fused together. Your maxilla is the bone that makes up your upper jaw, cheeks, and the lower part of your eye sockets. In medical terms, a recess means a space or ...

It had a lower jaw formed of dentary and infradentary bones, and an upper jaw comprising premaxilla and maxilla – a pattern typical of all early osteichthyans and most early tetrapods.

Dr. Emeka Nkenke of Erlangen University Hospital, Germany, and colleagues, report on the use of distraction osteogenesis to lengthen the maxilla (upper jaw) bone in patients with cleft lip and palate.

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We report a case of subperiosteal implant that caused severe bone absorption of the maxilla with perforation of maxillary sinus that not only in maxillary but in ethmoid and frontal sinusitis. 2. CASE ...