RONTEN Human Skeleton Model for Medical Study, Life Size Medical Anatomical Skeleton, 70.8' Including Adjustable Rolling Stand + Cover + Poster

I received the human skeleton its good but the poster is missing. Poor customer service 😔

This is Frank. He is a staple in our household now. My 3 and 6 year year old are having so much fun learning how the human body works. Little scared at first, but I showed them how fashionista he is and they played right along!The joints are sensitive and will come apart easily if not handled with EXTRA care. More like a skeleton with arthritis, honestly. And NOT 100% anatomically correct. However, I purchased for nursing school and continued education, and it’s been amazing this far. Plus a little added decoration at Halloween!

I am (and have for decades been) a clinician and teacher in whose work practical anatomy, clinical anatomy, is very important on a day-to-day basis. I have easy access to a skull, and to models of some other parts, but some time back, due to the retirement of a colleague, I lost my last easy access to a skeleton.It has been my experience that for some things three-dimensional specimens or models are close to essential. If I'm showing someone, for example, how to do a long alveolar nerve block, five minutes with a skull, an articulated mandible and a long pencil is likely to prove more valuable than an hour of watching videos.Actual human material, though, is difficult to come by now, and of course its use raises certain ethical issues. So I decided to try this inexpensive skeletal model, wondering if it would be adequate for my needs.The answer, I think, is both yes and no.From the neck down, everything is fine. I can, for example, demonstrate the line of an iliac bone-marrow biopsy, or show a student where the costal groove is, no problem. There are some little odd globs of plastic, but in general nothing that would interfere with my use of the model.The skull and mandible, unfortunately, are another story.There are non-anatomic lines on the skull that I suppose to be some artefact of the manufacturing process. Much more importantly, some of the more delicate structures of the skull are represented poorly, or not at all. The crista galli, for example, is blunted and smeared to one side, and where the cribriform plates should be there is just solid plastic. The bony turbinates are only vaguely suggested by bumps in the plastic-- nothing at all like the real thing. And where the calvarium is sectioned. to permit access to the interior, the "bone" is solid, without the tables and cancellous center that real bone would display at this point. The edges of the cap, incidentally, do not line up exactly with the lower part of the skull--this last, I admit, while unaesthetic, is of no practical importance. That there are no third molars is a more substantial complaint.I suppose it must be very difficult to model finer, more delicate structures, and while these things matter for me, I understand that for many applications they would not matter at all.More generally, someone has clearly taken great care with this thing. It is a very plausible articulated model of the skeleton of a small male of maybe twenty years--an effort has been made to show epiphyseal lines. A hyoid is present. Each hand /carpus and each foot /tarsus seems to be molded as a single piece, not as individual elements, and the same is true of both the upper and the lower teeth. The costal cartilages and the intervertebral disks are represented (with a ruptured disk at one point), as are (curiously) the spinal cord, the spinal nerve roots, and most of the length of the vertebral arteries. The extremities and the skull go on and come off the trunk fairly easily. I had some trouble attaching the skull to the rest--it's easier now I've got the hang of it.A minor point: the model was supposed to be 180 cm tall. How one arranges it matters, of course, but on the stand it is maybe 15 cm shorter than I am, and I'm about 175. I don't care at all, but I suppose that might matter if one were planning to dance with the thing.In summary: I'm glad I bought this model. It seems a little shorter that advertised, and there are some problems with the fine anatomy in the head. But unless those things are critical for you, it is probably a great value for the money.

Easy assembly, quality construction, attention to detail and anatomic accuracy - that's just a taste of what you get when you buy a skeleton from these folks at RONTEN. These folks will do whatever possible to help out even after the sale. I'd like to go in to the specifics, but Amazon doesn't like reviews about service. All you need to know is that these amazing people will take care of you when you buy this tremendous skeleton.

I love my Mr. Bones!He's been a great supplemental material for my Anatomy and Physiology class. Of course, this one is not as detailed as a lab skeleton at school but for home studying it is perfect. The features I like a lot is that all the limbs are easily detachable, and cranium is easy to open to see the inside structures. It also has sutures and all the important structures of the bones, like chondyles and tuberosities.Additionally, the holder that the skeleton rests upon is quite strurdy and it is easy to assemble it. The little wheels that are on the base aren't much help, because they're, well, little haha. But to their defense, I have carpet in my office so I'm not sure if it'd be better on a smooth floor.So my rating overall is five stars and this is after I used the skeleton for a couple of months now. Great product 👍

Ooo, I love this! Great quality. I kept looking at the detail on the bones. Not the most solid-looking wire connectors I've seen, but no problems at all so far. Even the included poster is of a high quality cloth-like paper and printed in full, realistic color with hundreds of labeled details. The included plastic cover was a good, inexpensive idea. It keeps the dust off. Seriously, who wants to spend time dusting their six foot skeleton? Actually it is about six feet tall on the stand. The skeleton itself is about 5.5 feet or so. The stand works fine, though they saved a bit of money with the cheap plastic feet/rollers which occasionally come off when it's being rolled across the floor. It doesn't look like they'll break easily, but they do just slip off. Still when I see other full sized skeletons for $1,600+, this is a smokin' deal. With two kids in college medicine, this will get a lot of use.

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