Crown Wear

The applicability of dental wear in age estimation for a modern American population

“…Industrially-processed food is thought to be the greatest contributing factor for less attrition in modern populations compared to archaeological populations (Burnett, 2016). Industrialization may be the cause of fewer instances of third-hand abrasion, though no studies on the frequency of third-hand habits in modern remains has been conducted, to the author's knowledge.…”

“…Therefore, dental wear is unidirectional, always increasing with age (Brothwell, 1981). Attrition is defined as the wearing down of enamel by tooth-on-tooth contact processes, while abrasion is the wearing down of enamel through contact of the teeth with hard substances, both of which occur through mastication (Burnett, 2016). Abrasion can also be more localized than attrition such as through parafunctional or third-hand habits, however, the two cannot always be distinguished.…”

Oral health and its implications on male-female dietary differences: A study from the Roman Province of Macedonia

“…Dental macrowear is also considered in this study. Dental wear is the irreversible reduction of the tooth's hard tissues that proceeds in a progressive manner with advanced age, along with a number of anatomical, physiological, chemical and/or behavioral factors (Burnett, 2016;Hillson, 2005). The mechanisms that operate during its expression are erosion, attrition and abrasion, which are caused by acids, natural friction between opposing teeth, and external mechanical masticatory or non-masticatory forces, respectively (Lussi, Jaeggi and Zero, 2004).…”

Biting into the Truth: Connecting oral pathology and stable isotopes through the paradigmatic example of a hyper-specialized marine diet in Medieval Pontevedra (NW Iberia)

“…δ15 N col (13.62‰) and δ 13 C col (-11.7‰), but her/his values are among the adult group with high δ 13 C col . When the whole non-adult assemblage was compared to the adult assemblage (…”