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Why do we have a maxilla?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

A maxilla is the upper part of your skull. This is attached to your mandible, which is the part below your jaw. Your maxilla never moves while your mandible does all the talking and eating and moving.

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