EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL POSTNATAL CRANIOFACIAL SKELETAL CHANGES

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 148  (5) , 659-669
Abstract
An understanding of normal and abnormal postnatal skeletal changes can aid in the prevention, early recognition and proper surgical treatment of craniofacial deformities. Research findings may have important implications and applications in relation to the basic problem of change of bone form and to the clinical problems of craniofacial operations. Precise analogies should not be made between animals and human beings. Change of the craniofacial skeleton, a 3-dimensional mosaic of bones and cavities, is a result of the synchronous coordination of the differential activities at various sites.