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There would be a smaller increase for general dental practice and a greater increase for specialist services such as maxillo-facial and oral surgery, the BHF said.
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If any of this bunch of half-baked scrotums take this act on the road I foresee a series of urgent referrals to maxillo-facial units nationwide.
Lady Killers juliette 2009
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DP Gauteng health spokesman, Jack Bloom, said the shoddy planning of equipment transfers from Hillbrow had resulted in a two-and-a-half month delay in relocating the hospital's maxillo-facial unit at Helen Joseph Hospital.
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The maxillo-turbinals, or twisted bony laminae within the nasal aperture, which are to be found in most mammals, are but rudimentary in the elephant -- the elongated proboscis, according to
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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The skull differs in shape, and greatly in the angle formed by the union of the premaxillary, nasal, and maxillo-jugal bones.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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The great difference (see woodcut No. 27) in the curvature of the lower jaw in the rock-pigeon, the tumbler, and Bagadotten carrier, stands in obvious relation to the curvature of the upper jaw, and more especially to the angle formed by the maxillo-jugal arch with the premaxillary bones.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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In the short-faced tumbler the skull is more globular; all the bones of the face are much shortened, and the front of the skull and descending nasal bones are almost perpendicular; the maxillo-jugal arch and premaxillary bones form an almost straight line; the space between the prominent edges of the eye-orbits is depressed.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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A plastic surgeon and a maxillo-facial surgeon have also been roped in.
The Times of India 2010
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A third team of highly skilled trauma medical specialists including orthopaedic, trauma and maxillo facial surgeons, anaesthetists and advanced life support paramedics are next in line to depart.
Muti 2010
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Impediment (s): Use of liquid synthetic has adverse reaction on performance of android's other maxillo-facial devices.
The Jawa Report 2009
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