What are the 13 facial bones of the skull?

Facial Bones. The viscerocranium (face) includes these bones: vomer, 2 inferior nasal conchae, 2 nasals, maxilla, mandible, palatine, 2 zygomatics, and 2 lacrimals.

What are the 14 bones of the facial skeleton and how many are there of each one?

The facial bones of the skull form the upper and lower jaws, the nose, nasal cavity and nasal septum, and the orbit. The facial bones include 14 bones, with six paired bones and two unpaired bones. The paired bones are the maxilla, palatine, zygomatic, nasal, lacrimal, and inferior nasal conchae bones.

What are the bones of the face and their location?

The facial bones (viscerocranium) make up most of the front of the skull. The bones responsible for the form of the face are – from top to bottom – the inferior nasal conchae and the nasal, maxilla, zygomatic, lacrimal, ethmoid, vomer, sphenoid, palatine, and mandible bones.

What are the 3 main facial bones?

The primary bones of the face are the mandible, maxilla, frontal bone, nasal bones, and zygoma. Facial bone anatomy is complex, yet elegant, in its suitability to serve a multitude of functions.

What are the 4 main facial bones?

The primary bones of the face are the mandible, maxilla, frontal bone, nasal bones, and zygoma.

What are the 29 bones of the skull?

Head bones: The 29 head bones consist of 8 cranial bones, 14 facial bones, the hyoid bone, and 6 auditory (ear) bones. The 8 cranial bones are the frontal, 2 parietal, occipital, 2 temporal, sphenoid, and ethmoid bones.

What are the 23 bones of the skull?

In the neurocranium these are the occipital bone, two temporal bones, two parietal bones, the sphenoid, ethmoid and frontal bones. The bones of the facial skeleton (14) are the vomer, two inferior nasal conchae, two nasal bones, two maxilla, the mandible, two palatine bones, two zygomatic bones, and two lacrimal bones.

How many bones are in the human face?

The vomer bone and mandible are not paired bones, while the maxilla, zygomatic, lacrimal, nasal, inferior nasal conchae and palatine bones are all paired. This means that while 8 unique bones are considered to be facial bones, a total of 14 bones combine together to make up our face. Hence, my friend had a total of 14 broken facial bones!

Are there any facial bones that are not paired?

All of this damage was worse than my friend thought, because while we have discussed a total of eight facial bones, six of the bones are paired! The vomer bone and mandible are not paired bones, while the maxilla, zygomatic, lacrimal, nasal, inferior nasal conchae and palatine bones are all paired.

What are the most common defects of the face?

The most common defects of the face are cleft lip and cleft palate. Other defects may involve the ears, eyes, and jaw. Some craniofacial defects that affect the skull include macrocephaly (the skull is too large), microcephaly (the skull is too small), and craniosynostosis (the bands of tissue that connect the bones of the skull close too early).

Are there ethmoid and sphenoid bones in the face?

The above facial bone diagram does not include the ethmoid and sphenoid bones. They are only labeled as part of the cranium. The facial bones have many functions, as each individual bone supports different areas of the face.