Abstract
The mandible (figure 8.1), the only mobile bone in the skull, forms the lower jaw and is quite versatile in its range of movement: elevation, depression, protrusion, retraction and from side to side.
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Betts-Symonds, G.W. (1984). Injury to the Mandible. In: Fracture. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17534-5_8
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