Often, it’s possible to repair broken jawbones, but jaws don’t always fit together properly after being surgically realigned. This can cause underbite. Most people aren’t born with perfectly ...

A Champions League defeat with honour attached against Bayern Munich might have done more for Celtic than the fans will ever appreciate. Wednesday night’s Herculean effort could have helped ...

There are two different kinds of labial frenulum: maxillary labial frenum, which connects the upper lip to the mouth mandibular labial frenum, which connects the lower lip to the mouth The labial ...

There are over 60 different types of oral appliances for sleep apnea, which generally fall into three categories: soft palatal lifters, mandibular advancement, and tongue-restraining devices. The cost ...

med.usyd.edu.au Background The mechanisms by which mandibular advancement splints (MAS) improve obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) are not well understood. This study aimed to evaluate the mechanism of ...

"The fossils show incremental modifications that demonstrate the complex process of adaptation," researcher Patricia Vickers-Rich said.

Micro-computed tomography (μCT) was performed using a μCT 35 Scanner (Scanco Medical). Complete mandibular bones (mice, n = 6) were scanned with an isotropic voxel size of 12 μm using 70 kVp tube ...

Figure 1 The therapeutic potential of natural Chinese medicine for the treatment of osteoporosis. The bone quality will be seriously impaired facing the challenges of estrogen or androgen deficiency, ...