The incidence of jaw necrosis in cancer patients who are receiving intravenous bisphosphonate therapy is notably higher and reaches up to double-figure percentages (1). In osteoporosis patients ...

Scalp necrosis and/or jaw pain may be the initial manifestation of temporal arteritis. Giant cell arteritis can be diagnosed at an early stage by physicians of various specialties, preventing ...

The drugs Fosomax, Actonel, Boniva and Reclast, which are called bisphosphonate drugs have been associated with a new, newly recognized condition, called osteonecrosis of the jaw. Now let me say ...

Jaw pain on one side of your face can feel like dull achiness, stiffness, or a sharp, radiating pain. The pain can range in severity from occasional to intense pain in your joints. Sometimes, intense ...

Mammals feed using a jaw hinge formed by dentary and squamosal bones. Fossil evidence reveals that this type of joint evolved independently in an extinct species of mammalian relatives called ...

Now, a 225-million-year-old fossilized jaw joint appears to represent the oldest example of a type of joint that has helped make mammals what they are today. This skeletal structure reveals that ...

ATEN-POUND bite requires a forty-pound contraction of the human jaw muscles. That is because the jaws are built on the principle of a pair of tongs, The power is applied near the joint ...

These fossils, belonging to the mammal-precursor species Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia guaibensis, offer critical insights into the development of the mammalian jaw and middle ear ...

A fight between students at AE Peacock Collegiate in Moose Jaw on Tuesday has resulted in a tense environment this week, creating anxiety for some students. A video of the incident has been ...

Picture: 9News The victim was taken to Royal Perth Hospital, where he underwent surgery for a fractured skull and broken jaw, according to 9News Nurse Zipporah Bartocho told 9News the man ...