Explore: Mandibular Injuries

About 26% of trotters examined by Tuomola et al. in 2019 had injuries to the mandibular bars, compared with 31% of Icelandic horses examined by Björnsdóttir

Mandibular fracture, also known as fracture of the jaw, is a break through the mandibular bone. In about 60% of cases the break occurs in two places.

were established by the 1970s. One fifth of facial injuries involve a mandibular fracture. Mandibular fractures are often accompanied by a 'twin fracture'

among phenotypes. However, mandibular prognathism is usually anomalous, and it may be a malformation, the result of injury, a disease state, or a hereditary

bony growth in the mandible along the surface nearest to the tongue. Mandibular tori usually are present near the premolars and above the location on

Mandibular setback surgery is a surgical procedure performed along the occlusal plane to prevent bite opening on the anterior or posterior teeth and retract

the anterior two-thirds of the tongue. It contains fibres from both the mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve (CN V3) and from the facial nerve (CN

Trauma and related mandibular fractures are also often related to inferior alveolar nerve injuries. Trigeminal sensory nerve injuries are associated with

risk relationship associated with inferior alveolar nerve injury following removal of mandibular third molar teeth: A systematic review". Journal of Stomatology

of facial injury. Facial trauma can also result from wartime injuries such as gunshots and blasts. Animal attacks and work-related injuries such as industrial