Total Number of Bones found in the Human Skull is

The total number of bones found in the human skull is

A. 22

B. 29

C. 35

D. 72

Answer: (B) 29

Explanation

• The skull is a vertebrate consisting of bones that give the head structure. It supports the networks of the facial expression and acts as a protective cover to the cavity

• The skull is mainly constituted of two parts the mandible and the cranium. And these two regions are in the form of the viscerocranium and the neurocranium. It also includes the anterior part of the skeleton and is a by-product of several sensory organs such as the ears, nose, mouth, and eyes

• The human skull consists of various types of bones. Mainly there are four types of bones, they are 

• Facial bones

• Cranial bones

• Ear ossicles

• Single hyoid bone

• The total number of bones in the human skull has 29, including the hyoid bone and the inner ear bone. In general, the human skull has 22 bones. These include fourteen facial skeleton bones and eight cranial bones

• The skull bones are joined by sutures (except the mandible) formed by ossification, with perforating fibres promoting flexibility

The facial skeleton has 14 bones. They are 

• Two inferior nasal conchae bones

• Two maxilla bones 

• The vomer bone,

• The two nasal bones

• The two palatines 

• The zygomatic bones 

• The two lacrimal 

• The mandible bone

• The hyoid bone has a horse-shoe structure at the base of the tongue.

• In some cases, extra bone pieces within the suture are called sutural or wormian bones. These can be found in the lambdoid suture

• The neurocranium consists of two temporal bones, the occipital bone, the sphenoid bones, two parietal bones, the frontal bone and the ethmoid