Facial and Skull bones Flashcards
The skull with the fleshy parts added, which includes the face.
- The skull is the bony framework of the head composed of the cranial and facial bones.
- Decapitation- includes the skull and the fleshy parts of the face.
The Head
- Protect the brain
- Support the jaws
- Serve as an attachment for muscles
- Give form to the head
Purpose of the Skull
- Oval from 3 views. (Front, side, top [crown]).
- Width is 2/3rds its length.
- Variations of form are because of enlarged width or length.
Geometric Form of The Normal Skull
- Bone thickness: Thicker
- Size of bones: Larger, relatively large
- Prominence of eminences: More
- Frontaonasal angle: Sharp, angular
- Supraorbital ridges: Prominent
- Forehead: Slopes backward
- Surface cheekbone: Rough, concave
- Mandible tip (chin): Squarer
- Foramen magnum: Large, long
- Mastoid process: Large
Male skull features
- Bone thickness: Thinner
- Size of Bones: Smaller, relatively small
- Prominence of eminences: Less
- Frontalnasal angle: Smooth curve
- Supraorbital ridges: poorly developed
- Forehead: Nearly vertical
- Surface cheekbone: smooth, flat
- Mandible tip (chin): Pointed
- Foramen magnum: smaller, round
- Mastoid process: small
Female Skull Features
- Reduction in the vertical length of the face.
- Alteration of the angles of the jaw.
Changes Resulting From The Loss of Teeth
Skull bone classification in the study of osteology.
Flat
The bones of the skull are locked together by the means of these.
- Exception: Lower jaw (mandible) is held by muscles and tendons.
Sutures
- Cranium
- Face
2 Major Sections of The Skull
Encloses the brain (larger simpler bones).
Cranium
More complex in form.
Face
Studies the parts of the bones which influence surface form or contribute to a restoration.
Restorative Art
Located at the anterior part of the base of the skull and binds the other cranial bones together.
Sphenoid
(No restorative art significance, not surface bone)
A horizontal plate that forms the roof of the nasal cavity and closes the anterior part of the base of the cranium.
Ethmoid
(No restorative art significance, not surface bone)
- Cradle for the brain.
- Lowest part of the back and base of the cranium.
- Contains the Foramen Magnum
- Articulates with the parietal bone at lambdoidal suture and the Termporal bone at the squamosal suture.
Occipital Bone
Large opening which permits entry of the spinal cord. Through which the spinal cord, spinal arteries, and nerves pass. It is located midway between the two mastoid processes.
- Value in a restoration- may be used to restore a decapitation.
Foramen Magnum
Form the superior portion of the sides and back of the cranium as well as 2/3rds of the roof of the cranium.
- Articulates with the Occipital bone at the lambdoidal suture, temporal bone at the squamosal suture, frontal bone at the coronal suture, and the opposite side parietal at the sagittal suture.
- Parietal eminence
- saggital suture
- Vertex
Parietal Bones (2)
Marked convexities on the outer surfaces of the partietal bones.
- Widest part of the cranium. It is measured between the two of these.
Parietal Eminence
Where both parietal bones join at the highest point of the cranial dome.
Sagittal Suture
The highest part of the cranium.
Vertex
Create the lower portion of the sides and base of the cranium. They are located inferior to the parietal bones and anterior to the occipital bone.
- Articulates with the parietal bone at the squamosal suture; Occipital bone at lambdoidal suture; Greater wing of the sphenoid bone.
Contains:
- Squama
- Zygomatic arch
- mandibular fossa
- Mastoid process
- external auditory meatus
Temporal Bones (2)
(Like a fish scale, which is this word’s meaning). The thin, superior part of the temporal bone. The temporal cavity is immediately lateral (outside) this, and this space houses the temporalis muscle, which, especially in the elderly or emaciated case, may atrophy and dehydrate, causing it to shrink, as in sunken temples, and require tissue building, however, only after consulting a photograph of the deceased.
Vertical surface of temporal bone.
- Zygomatic arch
- Mandibular fossa
Squama
A long, thin, arched process extending anteriorly from the squama to the zygomatic bone. It lies above the external auditory meatus.
- Widest part of the face is between the arches.
- Divides the ears length into two equal parts (halves). May be used to locate the correct position of a modeled ear.
Zygomatic Arch
A small oval depression or socket on the underside of the temporal bone. The condyle of the madible articulates in this depression.
- Socket for the mandible.
- Lies directly anterior to the ear passage (external auditory meatus).
Mandibular Fossa
A rounded projection of the interior portion of the temporal bone.
- Posterior part of the temporal bone.
- Physiognomically- under the lobe of the ear.
- Serves as the attachment of the sternocleidomastoideus muscle.
- The widest part of the neck.
Mastoid Process
- Opening of the ear passage.
- Is the keystone for accurate location of a modeled ear.
- Located in front of the mastoid process.
External Auditory Meatus
- Anterior 1/3 of the cranium
- Forms the forehead, parts of the eye socket and most of the anterior portion of the roof of the skull (cranial floor)
- Forehead
- Crown
- Hairline
- Eminences
- Articulates with the parietal bones at the coronal suture.
Frontal Bone (1)
From the eye sockets to the frontal eminences.
Forehead