[Average measurements of the mandibular corpus in the planning of jaw replacement]

The height and thicknesses of the mandible corpus at the level of foramen mentales, the thicknesses of the mandible base at 3 millimeters from the lower edge of the mandible base, the projection length of the mandible corpus and the angulus mandibulae were evaluated on jaws coming from 368 anthropological collections. No significant differences were found between the measures of the right and left side. The differences between corresponding data of men and women proved to be significant. The authors intend to use the data for designing and preparing jaw replacement models.