Accepted Article This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/joor.12747 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. MR. JULIÁN BALANTA MELO (Orcid ID : 0000-0002-0138-9199) DR. SONJA BUVINIC (Orcid ID : 0000-0002-2286-2918) Article type : Original Article Masseter muscle atrophy impairs bone quality of the mandibular condyle but not the alveolar process early after induction Short running title: Masseter atrophy impairs mandible bone quality Julián Balanta-Melo a,b,c (julian.balanta@correounivalle.edu.co) María Angélica Torres-Quintana d (mangelicatorres@odontologia.uchile.cl) Maximilian Bemmann c (maximilian_bemmann@eva.mpg.de) Carolina Vega a (cvega@odontologia.uchile.cl) Constanza González e (cfgonza8@uc.cl) Kornelius Kupczik c,f (kornelius_kupczik@eva.mpg.de) Viviana Toro-Ibacache a,f,g * (mtoroibacache@odontologia.uchile.cl) Sonja Buvinic a,h * (sbuvinic@u.uchile.cl) a. Institute for Research in Dental Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. b. School of Dentistry, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. c. Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. d. Department of Pathology and Oral Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. e. Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Santiago, Chile. f. Center for Quantitative Analysis in Dental Anthropology, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. g. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. h. Center for Exercise, Metabolism and Cancer Studies CEMC2016, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.