“…Rabbits have been widely used as experimental model in studies of behavior of cranial sutures, intracranial pressure, craniometric variations, evolution of fixation materials, and distraction of craniofacial structures (Mabbutt and Kokich 1979;Persson, Roy et al 1979;Alberius and Selvik 1983a;Alberius, Selvik et al 1986;Persing, Babler et al 1986;Alberius, Malmberg et al 1990;Smith, Mooney et al 1996;Singhal, Mooney et al 1997;Losken, Mooney et al 1998;Mooney, Siegel et al 1999;Wendy, Fellows-Mayle et al 2000;Gewalli, Guimaraes-Ferreira et al 2001;Putz, Smith et al 2001;Abreu 2002;David, Gewalli et al 2002;Gosain, Santoro et al 2002;David, Proffer et al 2004;Guimarães-Ferreira, Miguéns et al 2004;Cooper, Singhal et al 2006;Cardoso, Cançado et al 2007;Davis, Windh et al 2008;Davis, Windh et al 2009). Cerebral growth curve of rabbit specimens is similar to those of newborn human children: craniofacial growth in rabbits is accelareted immediately after birth, progressively decreasing from two to thirty-four weeks of age (Alberius, Selvik et al 1986;Abreu 2002).…”