An Anthropological Perspective: Another Dimension to Modern Dental Wear Concepts

Origins of dental crowding and malocclusions: an anthropological perspective.

The study of ancient Egyptian skeletons from Amarna, Egypt reveals extensive tooth wear but very little dental crowding, unlike in modern Americans. In the early 20th century, Percy Raymond Begg focused his research on extreme tooth wear coincident with traditional diets to justify teeth removal during orthodontic treatment. Anthropologists studying skeletons that were excavated along the Nile ...

The Evolutionary Paradox of Tooth Wear: Simply Destruction or Inevitable Adaptation?

Over the last century, humans from industrialized societies have witnessed a radical increase in some dental diseases. A severe problem concerns the loss of dental materials (enamel and dentine) at the buccal cervical region of the tooth. This "modern-day" pathology, called non-carious cervical lesions (NCCLs), is ubiquitous and worldwide spread, but is very sporadic in modern humans from pre-i...

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Many anthropological studies are derived from the analysis of dental casts. Dental morphology plays a key role for taxonomy (Wood, 1991), diet and ecological assessments (Swindler, 1976). Tooth wear provides information about food composition (Ungar, 2007), environment, cultural habits (Hinton, 1981), jaw movements (Kay & Hiiemae, 1974), health conditions (King et al., 2005) and determination o...

An application of dental anthropological analysis to the human dentition of two early metal age sites, Palawan, Philippines.

Machiavelli and the Foundation of the Modern Political Thought

The present article intends to start introduction to the political thinking of          Machiavelli by passing through some key concepts in his thinking, and by placing his idea in the area of political thinking. Surveying ethics in Machiavelli’s political thinking needs     separate individual ethics from political (civil) one.  And explaining Machiavelli’s remarks about the category of ethics...