0 the upper jaw bone that supports the upper teeth and forms part of the eye sockets and nasal cavity
Their alteration, especially with the addition of pigment and a false base, would have made them virtually indistinguishable from the maxillae to the unpracticed eye.
This is a painful, poorly healing or non-healing necrosis of the tooth socket following dental extraction leading to osteonecrosis of the mandible or maxilla.
The replicas were formed on a base of perishable material, perhaps stucco and / or wood, that represented the bony par ts of the maxilla.
Only complete maxillae and mandibles could be scored accurately for alveolar changes, thereby reducing the sample size to nine dental arcades (from distinct individuals).
This material adheres to the maxillipeds bordering the mouthparts as water is withdrawn, and is then transferred to the mouth via the maxillae.
The alveolar process of the maxilla is globose, nearly ovoid in outline.
Although most of these wore pendants of imitation human maxillae, four soldiers each had between seven and eleven real human maxillae.
However, in a few cases the pendants were real rather that imitation human maxillae.
