The mandibular canal, a crucial osseous conduit within the lower jaw, houses the inferior alveolar nerve and accompanying blood vessels. Its inherent anatomical variability, which includes branching ...

High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can effectively visualize variations in the inferior alveolar nerve of the mandible, and should be used in vague or unclear oral surgery cases when ...

Variation in the masticatory behavior of hunter-gatherer and agricultural populations is hypothesized to be one of the major forces affecting the form of the human mandible. However, this has yet to ...

A cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scan helped identify a fifth canal in the first premolar of a man who was undergoing a root canal. This is the first reported case of a fifth canal in this type ...