ADULT SKULL

In humans, the adult skull is normally made up of 28 bones. Except for the mandible, all of the bones of the skull are joined together by sutures, rigid articulations permitting very little movement.

At birth, the human skull is made up of 45 separate bony elements. As growth occurs, many of these bony elements gradually fuse together into solid bone (for example, the frontal bones).

* frontal bone
* parietal bone (2)
* temporal bone (2)
* occipital bone
* sphenoid bone
* ethmoid bone

Facial bones

* mandible
* maxilla (2)
* palatine bone (2)
* zygomatic bone (2)
* nasal bone (2)
* lacrimal bone (2)
* vomer bone
* inferior nasal conchae (2)