Sentences with phrase «jaw bone»

Half of the lower jaw bone has been destroyed by infection under the gum line, and the tooth required extraction.

Not for everyone, these glasses are made of black horn and jaw bones with gold capped teeth.

As a dentist, I have seen many patients with significant jaw bone loss.

The middle tooth is a premolar tooth with a feline odontoclastic resorptive lesion (FORL or cavity) and loss of jaw bone.

It's relatively common for a given gene to dictate a variety of functions from species to species, like the gene that codes for jaw bones in reptiles and also ear bones in humans.

These four fossils include a nearly - complete skull from the North Dakota Geological Survey State Fossil collection, a partial snout and an upper jaw bone from the Burke Museum's collections, and another upper jaw from the Sierra College Natural History Museum.

These were seeded into a tissue scaffold, formed into the precise shape of the human jaw bone by using digital images from a patient.

«Stem cells from jaw bone help repair damaged cartilage.»

Other potential risk factors include large tonsils, a small jaw bone, a large tongue and having sleep apnea in the family.

First is an assessment of your health, mouth (mercury fillings, cavitations or jaw bone infection), and external environment.

The 205 million - year - old jaw bone of a prehistoric reptile belongs to «one of the largest animals ever» say a group of international palaeontologists.

The fossil jaw bone (above), found in 2000 by a trawler in the North Sea, is extremely rare — and puzzling.

I conclude [the artist] is bent on displaying the whole expanse of my capacious jaw bone, upon which the word Mathematics should be written.

When scientists used computers to simulate how biting would strain S. melilutra's jaws, they concluded that the animal had much firmer jaw bones than expected.

I have recently learned about jaw bone cavitations from tooth extraction and how they harbor toxins and bacteria that can cause disease.

By cleaning your dog's teeth on a regular basis, you will not only keep his gums and jaw bones healthy, but you will also be able to eliminate the need for cleanings done by a vet.

Pit Bulls are bred with strong jaw bones and muscles, but they are on the lower end of bite pressure.

In addition, the infection that is eating away at the bone from below can eventually make its way into the skull and jaw bone causing a chronic painful condition caused osteomyelitis that can take several months of antibiotics to eradicate, and in some cases, can weaken the bone so much that cats can develop what is called a pathologic fracture, where the bone breaks with the slightest bit of pressure.

On Feb. 27th, Champ was shot by an intruder, leaving the dog with a broken jaw bone, nerve problems, a bullet entry under his eye, and wounds covering his neck, shoulder, and abdomen, KTLA reported.

Their scissor - bite and thin jaw bones make them susceptible to periodontal disease, which can be avoided with good dental care.

Discovering a potential Polar Bear jaw bone that dates back 110,000 years ago is incredible.

They uncovered more remains, including several pieces of jaw bone and a fragment of an arm.

Comparing volume and activity of the cells that break down bone density in the upper and lower jaw bones of Medaka fish after 56 days spent aboard the International Space Station with those on the ground.

Dr. Lisa Fink, our board - certified oral surgeon, and Dr. Oliver Morgan, our board - certified surgeon, together performed a partial maxillectomy removing a portion of the left upper jaw bone.

The leading cause of tooth loss is gingivitis and, because of their smaller jaw bone, small breeds lose their teeth more frequently than larger breeds.

Unless brushed away daily, these bacteria can lead to gingivitis, cause bleeding, and if untreated, cause tooth and jaw bone loss.

I've seen drawings and models, where they construct some primitive being from a small piece of a jaw bone...

This results from the fact that a load of the jaw bone by the biting relieves the Kiefer and relieves thus the pain.

Baby teeth also allow our jaw bone to develop properly through the early stages of life.

This helps their gums and jaw bones to develop well and allows more room for teeth to come down straight when they start to appear.

And nerve holes riddled the dinosaur's snout and jaw bones.

Last year, Dr Nick Longrich, from the Milner Centre for Evolution and the Department of Biology & Biochemistry at the University of Bath, studied a rare fragment of a jaw bone that was discovered in the mines at Sidi Chennane in the Oulad Abdoun Basin, Morocco.

Compared with chimps, humans have evolved weak jaw muscles and jaw bones — possibly because social organisation reduced the need to bite as a form of attack

Dr Nick Longrich, from the Milner Centre for Evolution based in the University of Bath's Department of Biology & Biochemistry, studied one of these rare fossils, a fragment of a jaw bone kept in the Peabody Museum at Yale University.

Surgery and years of radiotherapy have left her with a hollow from her left eyebrow to the jaw bone below.

In the treated chick embryos, the palate looked more like it does in other vertebrates: flat and seemingly reconnected to the jaw bones.

ALL TEETH While researchers have only the dinosaur's upper jaw bone and some teeth, this reconstruction takes a stab at a portrait of Matheronodon provincialis, a new species.

Of hundreds of fossils unearthed over the last two decades at a site called Velaux - La Bastide Neuve in the French countryside, a handful of jaw bones and teeth now have been linked to this new species, Matheronodon provincialis.

The cells reside within the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), which articulates the jaw bone to the skull.

That year, a sand mine worker in Germany discovered the jaw bone of Homo heidelbergensis — a 200,000 - to -600,000-year-old hominin now recognized as a likely common ancestor to both modern humans and Neandertals.

The team used computed tomography (CT) scans of skulls to create 3 - D, computerized models showing how the jaw bones of 10 of the 13 known living otter species bend under biting forces.

The Burke and UW researchers say they were able to unearth roughly a fifth of the animal, including ribs, hips, jaw bones and vertebrae.

While the buildup of dental plaque sticks mainly to the crown, it also adheres to the exposed parts of the screw that holds the dental fixture in place, and these are much harder to clean because they contain microgrooves that make them fit better into the upper or lower jaw bones.

«Usually fossils are identified as a new species only when a relatively complete set of structures like a jaw bone are found.

Dr. Julien Louys holds the jaw bone of a giant rat species discovered on East Timor, up against a comparison with the same bone of a modern rat.

They were probably separated when our ancestor lost a fight with a hungry carnivore, which pulled apart his skull and jaw bones, Lordkipanidze said.

Parts of its jaw bone and teeth were found nine years ago in the Djurab desert in Chad.

The remains contain an estimated 20 percent of the carnivorous dinosaur — which lived 145 - 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period — including an intact skull, vertebrae, ribs, hips and lower jaw bones.