Fibrous Joints

Fibrous joints are also called fixed or immovable joints because they do not move.

A suture is a type of fibrous joint (synarthrosis) bound by Sharpey's fibers that only occurs in the skull (cranium).

Syndesmoses are slightly movable joints formed where an interosseous ligament joins two bones.

A gomphosis is a fibrous joint that binds the teeth to bony sockets in the bones of the maxilla mandible.