ABSTRACT
The facial skeleton is made up of the stout, horse-shoe shaped mandible or lower jaw which articulates at the temporo-mandibular joints (TMJs), the teeth and other much lighter bones, eg the temporal, zygoma and maxilla. The cheek bones and those of the nose are made up of thin plates of bone, and the prominences of the cheek are in fact hollow areas (sinuses) which open into the nasal cavity.
