Sentences with phrase «of jaw bone»

Advanced dental disease can lead to tooth root abscesses, which are extremely painful, oro - nasal fistulas, tooth fractures, blindness (due to inflammation of the roots close to the eye), oral cancer, and osteomyelitis (infection of the jaw bone).

Periodontal disease doesn't just affect your pets teeth, gums and the deterioration of the jaw bone, it impacts their entire general health.

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

If the melanoma has arisen from the oral cavity and has invaded the jaw, your veterinarian may recommend that part of the jaw bone be removed as well.

Sometimes an adult tooth won't be able to push a baby tooth out of the way, which can lead to improper tooth alignment and abnormal development of the jaw bone.

Unfortunately, there is no treatment for craniomandibular osteopathy that will slow the growth of the jaw bone.

After x-rays were taken, it was discovered that our little white dog had a non-union off - set fracture of the jaw bone.

Dental surgery requires the removal of teeth and / or the reconstruction of the jaw bone to position them better.

Such side effects include stomach ulcers and osteoneocrosis, or death of the jaw bone, resulting in tooth loss, pain and infection.

Fosamax has a side - effect called necrosis of the jaw bone.

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

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.

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

Occasionally, a retained deciduous tooth can cause a dental interlock which may interfere with the normal growth and development of the jaw bones.

Not exact matches

If that is the case, then its independence is anti-democratic and must be attacked, either with Presidential jaw - boning or the threat of legislation.

In reptiles, both today and in the past, the jaw joint lies between the articular bone at the back of the lower jaw, and the quadrate bone in the skull.

Paul said «Initially, the bone just looked like a piece of rock but, after recognising a groove and bone structure, I thought it might be part of a jaw from an ichthyosaur and immediately contacted ichthyosaur experts Dean Lomax (University of Manchester) and Prof. Judy Massare (SUNY College at Brockport, NY, USA) who expressed interest in studying the specimen.

Lomax and Massare identified the specimen as an incomplete bone (called a surangular) from the lower jaw of a giant ichthyosaur.

«As the specimen is represented only by a large piece of jaw, it is difficult to provide a size estimate, but by using a simple scaling factor and comparing the same bone in S. sikanniensis, the Lilstock specimen is about 25 % larger.

Bioengineer David Kaplan at Tufts University's Department of Biomedical Engineering, who had no role in these findings, calls the work «fantastic» and adds future research might want the bioreactor to mimic the same range of mechanical forces this bone will see if implanted — for instance, for the jaw joint, «you'd want it to experience compression and torsion.»

Premaxillae are the small bones at the tip of the upper jaw of most animals, but are enlarged and fused to form the beak of birds.

Between the two carnivores, results show that Tyrannosaurus could produce a sustained muscle (and, therefore, bite) force for a wide range of jaw angles, which would be necessary for biting through meat and skin and crushing bone.

These cells orchestrate the development of the jaws and other facial bones as well as the heart and its major vessels in a growing embryo, says Benner.

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

This coyote - sized dog was a member of the extinct subfamily Borophaginae, commonly known as bone - crushing dogs because of their powerful jaws and broad teeth.

Examination of individual bones confirmed that the nose, cheeks, and jaw were all childlike.

And with a product that can create the curve of a jaw as easily as the top of a skull, he's confident it won't be long before he can use it to reconstruct the architecture of the face with bones that move the way they were meant to.

According to Shimada, one pair of bones called hyomandibulae formed a massive oar - shaped lever to protrude and swing the jaws open extra wide, like a parachute, in order to receive more plankton - rich water into its mouth, similar to the way many sharks open their mouth.

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

But most of the bones are marine: scraps of whale bone, jaw and skull fragments of harp seals, a bit of inner ear of a hooded seal.

To glean insights into how bones grow — and thus to better interpret fossilized human jaws and skulls — the student wanted to see whether the repeated impact of running would spur a thickening of the pig's skull.

The skeleton of the fish, named Materpiscis, or «mother fish,» contained the teeth, jaws, skull bones, and body plates of a much smaller member of the same species, as well as an umbilical cord connecting the two.

This backs up a 2013 study that showed that several traits thought to be unique to bony fish, such as the presence of large platelike bones, were in fact present in placoderms, an extinct group of jawed fish related to the ancestor of both cartilaginous and bony fish.

It consists of half a skull, lower jaw with an almost entire set of conical teeth, right shoulder blade and two small bones from the dolphin's flipper.

The word anam means lake in a Kenyan dialect; the fossils — including some teeth, parts of the upper and lower jaws, an arm bone, and these two pieces of a shinbone — were found near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya.

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.

She has a low forehead, a dull grey eye, a vast pendulous nose, a huge mouth, full of uneven teeth, and a chin and jaw - bone qui n'en finissent pas....

«Reptiles have [a] jaw full of ear bones from mammals and mammals have an ear full of jawbones of reptiles,» Luo notes.

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.

And a bony strut that connects a fish's jaw hinge to the brain case became one of three tiny bones in this chamber.

The research team, which included co-author Dr. Natalia Rybczynski, a Research Associate and paleontologist with the Canadian Museum of Nature, were able to study recovered bones from the skull, jaws and teeth, as well as parts of the skeleton from two individuals.

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.

Based on the new study's findings, S. melilutra's jaws would have been strong enough to crush the shells of big mollusks or the bones of birds and small mammals like rodents, though what exactly it ate is unknown.

Palaeontologists believe the jaws of the massive Tyrannosaurus rex were so powerful they could crush bones.

Because development often reprises stages of evolution, the growth of embryonic ears in tandem with the jaw is no accident: the sound - transmitting middle ear bones that are a distinguishing feature of mammals evolved from what used to be gill arches in fish and jawbones in reptiles.

The actions of hyenas and other carnivores that actively competed for these remains largely explain why the fossil assemblage at Aramis contains an overrepresentation of teeth, jaws, and limb bone shaft splinters (versus skulls or limb bone ends).

Another distinct characteristic of the Hog - nosed rat is that it lacks a jaw muscle attachment point found in most mammals called the coronoid process on the dentary bone.

That feature allows the bones to rotate, broadening the lower jaw and thereby increasing the volume of seawater that can be taken in a single gulp.

Using advanced facial and cranial biomechanical analyses with nearly 40 people whose measurements were plotted from toddlers to adults, the UI team concludes mechanical forces, including chewing, appear incapable of producing the resistance needed for new bone to be created in the lower mandible, or jaw area.

Moreover, the bones in the front part of a baleen whale's lower jaw, or mandible, aren't fused as they are in other mammals.