The newborn mammalian cranial vault consists of five flat bones that are joined together
along their edges by soft fibrous tissues called sutures. Early fusion of these sutures leads to …

Children with unoperated cleft palates have nearly normal growth of their faces whereas
patients who have had early surgical repair often exhibit midfacial hypoplasia. Surgical …

" In this volume craniofacial developmental and evolutionary biologists, oral and
maxillofacial surgeons, orthodontists as well as pediatric and plastic surgeons will find a …

Fixation of craniomaxillofacial bones with plates and screws is becoming an increasingly
popular method of managing patients with maxillofacial fractures, congenital anomalies, and …

Craniosynostosis is the premature fusion of calvarial sutures. It results from abnormal
differentiation or proliferation of cells within the osteogenic fronts of growing calvarial bones …

Growth and development is the net result of environmental modulation of genetic
inheritance. Mesenchymal cells differentiate into chondrogenic, osteogenic, and fibrogenic …

Purpose: This study was designed to investigate the effects of artificial mechanical
separation of the circummaxillary sutures on craniofacial growth in growing rats. Materials …

Background: Sutures exist in the craniofacial area, and the pattern of maturation and
synostosis of facial sutures is largely unknown. Methods: For a comprehensive …

Sutures are fibrous joints in the vertebrate skull. They consist of two bone ends and
intervening fibrous tissue which differentiates from embryonic mesenchyme. Sutures are not …

Introduction The purpose of this study was to establish the causal relationships between
expansion force magnitudes, sutural separation, and sutural bone formation. Methods Thirty …