Introduction. The mandibular condyle is the most common site of mandibular fracture. Surgical treatment of condylar fractures by open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) demands direct visualization of the fracture. This project aimed to investigate the anatomic relationship of the tragus to the facial nerve and condylar process. Materials and Methods. Twelve fresh hemicadavers heads were us...

PURPOSE This patient study was designed to measure the validity of both the horizontal and Camper's planes, which are used as benchmarks to reestablish the sagittal orientation of the occlusal plane angles in dental rehabilitation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Profile digital photographs were made of the first 100 consenting dentate patients as they closed on an occlusal plane analyzer while maintai...

Hectopsylla pulex Haller is documented for the first time from Cochise County, Arizona on the Lesser Long-nosed bat, Leptonycteris yerbabuenae Martinez and Villa (Phyllostomidae). This represents the first record of this flea on this Chiropteran Family. The most favorable site of attachment of H. pulex appears to be the head, particularly the ears and tragus. The potential interference of echol...

3 Chad E. Mire, Joan B. Geisbert, Krystle N. Agans, Yan-Ru Feng, Karla A. Fenton, 4 Katharine N. Bossart, Lianying Yan, Yee-Peng Chan, Christopher C. Broder and Thomas W. 5 Geisbert 6 7 Galveston National Laboratory and Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, University 8 of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA; Department of Microbiology and 9 Immunology, Uniformed Services Universi...

Resolving species limits within the genus Miniopterus has traditionally been complicated by the presence of cryptic species with overlapping morphological features. We use molecular techniques, cranio-dental characters and tragus shape to describe a new species of Miniopterus from Mozambique, M. mossambicus. Miniopterus mossambicus shows > 12% divergence in cytochrome-b sequence from its nea...

BACKGROUND German anesthesiologists have long used transcutaneous electrical stimulation of an acupuncture point near the tragus to reduce anesthetic requirement in unblinded and uncontrolled trials. This is known as auricular electrically stimulated analgesia. The authors therefore tested the hypothesis that auricular electrically stimulated analgesia reduces anesthetic requirement. METHODS ...

This report presents a rare case of multiple accessory tragi, which developed at an unusual site outside derivative branchial arch, in this the nose. Thus far, to our knowledge is 4th reported ofsimilar nature world. significantin that, first with tragus present along midline dorsum