Your skull is made up of 22 bones fused together. Your maxilla is the bone that makes up your upper jaw, cheeks, and the lower part of your eye sockets. In medical terms, a recess means a space or ...

Replacing the maxillary bone. Your surgeon may be able to fill the space using a piece of bone from another part of your body. Or you can have an artificial structure, called a prosthesis, to fill ...