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Mandible

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The mandible shows extensive variation in size and weight during an individual's lifetime. The chin may protrude or recede; there may be one rather than two mental tubercles. Although the coronoid and condylar processes vary in size and form, they are rarely united by sutures with the ramus (subcoronoid and subcondyloid sutures). The condylar processes may be doubled. In some individuals, the two halves of the jaw fail to co-ossify. The mental foramen may be doubled or tripled.

The mandible shows extensive variation in size and weight during an individual's lifetime. The chin may protrude or recede; there may be one rather than two mental tubercles.

Although the coronoid and condylar processes vary in size and form, they are rarely united by sutures with the ramus (subcoronoid and subcondyloid sutures). The condylar processes may be doubled. In some individuals, the two halves of the jaw fail to co-ossify.

The mental foramen may be doubled or tripled. The location of the mental foramen has been found as far forward as the first premolar or as far back as the second premolar. In very rare cases a median mental foramen is present, comparable with an arterial canal normally present in certain apes.

The mylohyoid groove may be bridged over by a bony process and converted into a canal.

A process projecting from the posterior or inferior border (near the angle) of the mandible has been named processus lemurinicus by Sandifort (Albrecht). and has been compared with a similar spur in the jaws of Carnivora.

Anomalous teeth have been found widely distributed throughout the mandible.

Variations in Mandibular Foramen, Canal, and Mylohoyid Groove

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Unerupted Teeth

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Mental Foramen

Absence and Variations of Mental Foramina

Riferimenti dell’opera originale

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Anatomical classification

Systems:
Skeletal system

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