The mandible has two foramina: the mandibular foramen and the mental foramen. The ramus houses the mandibular foramen, which sits on the internal surface of the ramus.

Representing the “wings” of the mandible, the ramus arises on each side of the jaw. It contains two bony prominences that bound the temporomandibular joint, which allows the bone to move.

This study was to describe the use of inverted-L osteotomy of ramus and iliac bone graft for the management of mandibular deficiency in adult patients. From 2008 to 2010, 11 patients (aged 19 to ...

Some investigators have shown that fractures occur mostly, in decreasing frequency, in the mandibular body, condyle, angle and symphysis. Fractures of the mandibular ramus and the coronoid process ...

Imaging aided in the diagnosis of an unusual case of aseptic necrosis of the ramus lower jaw, which developed in a man who experienced midface trauma caused by a workplace fall. The case report was ...

Three boys (ages 10, 13, and 15) with confirmed BRAF V600E mandibular ameloblastoma presented separately to a hospital. The tumors were all deemed to be "marginally resectable," and ...

"Antihypertensive medications may have a protective effect against age-related bone loss as measured by cortical thickness of the ramus," wrote co-author Dr. Brett Spenrath, chief resident, department ...

Image: 29.72 x 21.85 in. (75.5 x 55.5 cm.) Basquiat's fascination with anatomy began at a young age and was a powerful driving factor throughout his short but prolific career. His encyclopedic ...

Normally, the parotid glands are not palpable, and a concavity exists in the region between the superior ramus of the mandible and the anterior margin of the sternocleidomastoid muscle.

Deinosuchus riograndensis holotype specimen (AMNH 3073) anterior mandible. A, anterior mandible in dorsal view. B, anterior mandible in ventral view. C, left anterior mandibular ramus in lateral view.

A controversial analysis of a recently discovered jaw from a 3-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis puts Lucy's species on an evolutionary side branch that eventually died out.