For many years, research on tooth wear by dental academics has been diametrically opposite to that of anthropological research, with each discipline having a different understanding as to the nature of the wear processes. Dental focus revolved around preventive and restorative considerations while the anthropological focus was a biological understanding related to human evolution, diet, environ...

Some of the efforts that have been made to document tooth wear are reviewed here with an emphasis on nonhuman mammals, literature with which dentists may not be very familiar. We project a change in research strategy from the description of wear at various scales of measurement towards investigation of the mechanical mechanisms that actually create the texture of a worn surface. These studies s...

Prosthetic-restorative approach for the restoration of tooth wear. Case report Objective. This article presents a case report of combined prosthetic-adhesive rehabilitation in a patient with a generalized tooth wear. Methods. A combined treatment adhesive prosthetic was proposed to a male patient of 65 years old having a clinically significant tooth wear, with dentine exposure and with a reduct...

This review of human tooth wear describes the fundamental mechanisms underlying this process. Using the tribological approach they can be systematised and this in turn aids our understanding of them. In past populations wear was ubiquitous, intense, abrasive and physiological as it was related to their food and their technologies. In these populations, it affected the proximal surfaces, and the...

Tooth wear is a universal experience. The cause is usually a combination of erosion, attrition and abrasion. Attrition usually presents with flattened incisal and occlusal tooth surfaces which accurately inter-digitate. Erosion from dietary or gastric acids forms smooth lesions which typically appear as cupped occlusal/incisal and concave buccal/facial surfaces. When combined with attrition or ...

Much attention is being paid in the current literature to the necessity of raising awareness of the problem of tooth wear. The aim of this paper is to discuss advantages, disadvantages and modifications of currently used tooth wear indices with particular attention drawn to the advantages of their use both in everyday practice and epidemiological research, as well as an attempt to make the choi...

This paper refines current methods for aging mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella), one of the most common species hunted by prehistoric humans in the southern Levant. Most importantly, we present a new tooth wear scheme for aging the lower deciduous fourth premolar (dP4), the lower permanentmolars (M1,M2,M3) and the lower fourth premolar (P4) of the gazelle. Broaderwear stages for completemandibl...

UNLABELLED Prosthetic-restorative approach for the restoration of tooth wear. Case report OBJECTIVE This article presents a case report of combined prosthetic-adhesive rehabilitation in a patient with a generalized tooth wear. METHODS A combined treatment adhesive - prosthetic was proposed to a male patient of 65 years old having a clinically significant tooth wear, with dentine exposure an...

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 ...

Purpose: Scientific data on wear from toothbrushing of luting cements for fixed partial dentures (FPDs) are limited and inconsistent, therefore the study aimed: (1) to investigate the effect of marginal gap width on cement wear and (2) to compare the resistance to wear from toothbrushing of five luting materials in an in vitro model. Materials and Methods: one zinc phosphate cement (ZPC), glass...