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Headquarters. San Francisco. Key people. Yves Béhar. AliphCom, Inc. (doing business as Aliph, Jawbone) was an American technology company based in San Francisco. It made consumer products including fitness tracker Jawbone. The company was liquidated in July 2017 and co-founder Hosain Rahman moved to health products with Jawbone Health Hub.
Osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) is a severe bone disease (osteonecrosis) that affects the jaws (the maxilla and the mandible). Various forms of ONJ have been described since 1861, and a number of causes have been suggested in the literature. Osteonecrosis of the jaw associated with bisphosphonate therapy, which is required by some cancer ...
In jawed vertebrates, the mandible (from the Latin mandibula, 'for chewing'), lower jaw, or jawbone is a bone that makes up the lower – and typically more mobile – component of the mouth (the upper jaw being known as the maxilla). The jawbone is the skull's only movable, posable bone, sharing joints with the cranium's temporal bones.
Alexander Asseily is a British/Lebanese technology entrepreneur and investor. He has been a founder of various companies including consumer electronics company Jawbone, women's health company Elvie and Zulu Group. His business interests in the field are extensive, and he has held executive roles with companies such as Lilium, Atomico Ventures ...
Cysts of the jaws are cysts —pathological epithelial -lined cavities filled with fluid or soft material—occurring on the bones of the jaws, the mandible and maxilla. Those are the bones with the highest prevalence of cysts in the human body, due to the abundant amount of epithelial remnants that can be left in the bones of the jaws.
The unique feature of the temporomandibular joint is the articular disc. The disc is composed of dense fibrocartilagenous tissue that is positioned between the head of the mandibular condyle and the mandibular fossa of the temporal bone. The temporomandibular joints are one of the few synovial joints in the human body with an articular disc ...
Jaw. Human lower jaw viewed from the left. The jaws are a pair of opposable articulated structures at the entrance of the mouth, typically used for grasping and manipulating food. The term jaws is also broadly applied to the whole of the structures constituting the vault of the mouth and serving to open and close it and is part of the body plan ...
Human jaw shrinkage. Human jaw shrinkage is the phenomenon of continued size reduction of the human mandible and maxilla over the past 12,000 to 15,000 years. Modern human lifestyles and diets are vastly different now from what they were for most of human evolutionary history. Human jaws, as well as oral cavities, have been shrinking ever since ...