POST NATAL GROWTH OF

MAXILLA &MANDIBLE

PRESENTED BY
-DR.MANJU DEVI S K
 POST NATAL GROWTH

 Itis defined as the first 20 years of

growth after birth
 Divided into three periods
1. Infancy
2. Childhood
3. Adolescence
 TIMING OF GROWTH

WIDTH LENGTH HEIGHT

 POST NATAL GROWTH OF
MANDIBLE
• The shape and size of diminutive fetal mandible
undergo considerable transformation during its growth
&development.
• The assending ramus of the neonatal mandible is low
&wide
• The coronoid process is relatively large &projects well
above the condyle
• The body is merely an open shell containing the buds
and partial crowns of the deciduous teeth.
• Mandibukar canal runs low in the body
• The initial separation of the right & left bodies of the
mandible at the symphysis menti is gradually
eliminated between 4th month and 12th month after
birth when ossification converts the syndesmosis into
synostosis, uniting the two halves
 Although the mandible appears as a single bone in the adult, it is developmentally &
functionally divisible into several sub units.
 Basal bone of the body forms one unit, to which are attached the alveolar,
coronoid, angular, condylar processes & the chin.

TEETH ALVEOLAR UNIT

FUNCTIONAL MATRIX
TEMPORALIS CORONOID PROCESS

MASSETER &MEDIAL ANGLE & RAMUS

PTERYGOID

LATERAL PTERYGOID CONDYLE

TONGUE &PERIORAL ORAL AND PHARYNGEAL

MUSCLES CAVITIES
 Of all the facial bones, the mandible undergoes the most growth postnatally &shows
greater variation in morphology
 Limited growth occurs at symphysis menti until fusion occurs

Main sites of post

natal growth
• Condyle
• Posterior
borders of rami
• Alveolar ridges
 The areas ofbone deposition largely account for increase in height, length and
width of the mandible

Basic
incremental
growth

Selective
Due to local resorption
functional &displacement
influences
of individual
mand. elements

Regional
remodelling