Introduction Human skeletons and bones are essential for medical and allied sciences students. Nowadays, it is becoming challenging to procure bone legally, resulting in medical students' inadequacy of bone. Plaster-of-Paris or resin bone models sold on the market are less detailed than real bones.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Temporomandibular joint ankylosis-associated deformity and dysfunction is a challenge to reconstruct. Alloplastic temporomandibular joints, both stock and custom-made, are used to replace the ankylotic mass with a functional joint. Still, the cost of these alloplastic joints is so expensive that it cannot be affordable to most of our population.
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October 2021
Background: The base of the skull, particularly the pterygomaxillary region, has a sophisticated topography, the morphometry of which interests pathologists, maxillofacial and plastic surgeons. The aim of the study was to conduct pterygomaxillary morphometrics and test relevant hypotheses on sexual and laterality-based dimorphism, and causality relationships.
Materials And Methods: We handled 60 dry skulls of adult Asian males (36.