<Tr> <Th> FMA </Th> <Td> 52748 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Anatomical terms of bone (edit on Wikidata) </Td> </Tr> <P> The mandible, lower jaw or jawbone is the largest, strongest and lowest bone in the human face . It forms the lower jaw and holds the lower teeth in place . The mandible sits beneath the maxilla . It is the only movable bone of the skull (discounting the ossicles of the middle ear). </P> <P> The bone is formed in the fetus from a fusion of the left and right mandibular prominences, and the point where these sides join, the mandibular symphysis, is still visible as a faint ridge in the midline . Like other symphyses in the body, this is a midline articulation where the bones are joined by fibrocartilage, but this articulation fuses together in early childhood . </P>

Why is the mandible the strongest bone in the face