The hyoid bone is a small horseshoe-shaped bone located in the front of your neck. It sits between the chin and the thyroid cartilage and is instrumental in the function of swallowing and tongue ...

"In this case, the scaffold supported and encouraged new bone to grow in the jaw of a 46 year-old man, allowing a dental implant with a new tooth to be securely inserted," Professor Ivanovski said.

The main symptoms include pain or swelling in the gums and jaw bone, loosening of teeth, poor healing of the gums after dental work and numbness in the jaw, the charity explains. But prostate ...

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In this case, the scaffold supported and encouraged new bone to grow in the jaw of a 46 year-old man, allowing a dental implant with a new tooth to be securely inserted. The bone scaffolds are ...

But is it a human jaw ... anatomy appear human, but perhaps the most unusual finding is that it looks like the person may have had dental work done. “There appear to be absent teeth and the bone ...

Notice the many fine parallel lines preserved on the root of the tooth, that were made when the serrated cutting edge of another megalodon tooth scraped over this surface. Figure 1. A Miocene fossil ...

The bone marrow is the spongy part of your bones where oxygen-carrying red bloods, infection-fighting white blood cells, and clot-forming platelets are made. The bone marrow is a soft tissue with many ...

The monumental glacier is over 3,000 feet (900 m) deep in some places and conceals several active volcanoes below its surface, the most famous being Grímsvötn, Öræfajökull and Bárðarbunga.