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The total number of bones in the human skull is ..........

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The human skull is generally considered to consist of 22 bones -
8 cranial bones, 14 facial bones, 2 temporal bones, 2 parietal bones, the sphenoid, ethmoid and frontal bones.
So, the correct answer is 22.

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