The human skull has many components. In fact, in an average adult human, the skull combines 22 bones. One of these bones is the mandible, more commonly known as the lower jaw. Recognized as one of the ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

This X-ray shows a broken jaw. The dark angular line near the bottom right of the jaw is the fracture. Photo courtesy of Lisa Chan, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona. What Is ...

The diagnosis of osteochemonecrosis is currently accepted if necrotic jawbone exposure lasts more than 8 weeks, 1,2 along with a history of related antiresorptive therapy and no irradiation of the ...

A team of scientists has examined the Middle Pleistocene Montmaurin-La Niche mandible, which reveals the complexity of the origin of the Neanderthals. A team of scientists from the Centro Nacional de ...