Fig. 6.

Distribution of collagen fibril diameters measured on the surfaces of TMJ articular disc and mandibular condyle cartilage. (a) Comparison across the three tissue sites (for each disc surface, measurements were pooled from all five different regions), (b) Comparison across five different anatomical regions on the articular disc surface (A: anterior, P: posterior, C: central, M: medial, L: lateral) (≥300 fibrils from n = 3 animals for each region, regions with different letters are statistically different, p < 0.05, mean ± 95% CI).