Sexual differences in Turkish dentition

Ateş, Muzaffer; Karaman, Feryal; İşcan, M. Ya̧sar; Erdem, Tamer

doi:10.1016/j.legalmed.2006.06.003

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“…Inuit men presented higher values of this feature, indicating the possession of generally larger teeth. Our findings are in line with the assumption of Hillson (1996) and Harris (2003) that tooth size is not a sexually distinctive characteristic in modern humans (Ates et al, 2006;Castillo et al, 2011;Harris, 2003;Suazo et al, 2008).…”

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confidence: 91%

“…They have also stated that Southeast Asians are characterized by dental patterns similar to those of sub-Saharan Africans and that the overall patterns of dental morphology are consistent with genetic and craniometric data. However, many other researchers have argued that the differences in dental measurements do not vary enough to efficiently discriminate contemporary human populations (Ates et al, 2006;Castillo et al, 2011;Harris, 2003;Suazo et al, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

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First molar size and wear within and among modern hunter-gatherers and agricultural populations

Górka

Romero

Pérez‐Pérez

2015

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Please cite this article as: Górka, K., Romero, A., Pérez-Pérez, A.,First molar size and wear within and among modern hunter-gatherers and agricultural populations, Journal of Comparative Human Biology (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10. 1016/j.jchb.2015.02.007 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. AbstractApart from reflecting modern human dental variation, differences in dental size among populations provide a means for studying continuous evolutionary processes and their mechanisms. Dental wear, on the other hand, has been widely used to infer dietary adaptations and variability among or within diverse ancient human populations. Few such studies have focused on modern foragers and farmers, however, and diverse methods have been used. This research aimed to apply a single, standardized, and systematic quantitative procedure to measure dental size and dentin exposure in order to analyze differences among several hunter-gatherer and agricultural populations from various environments and geographic origins. In particular, we focused on sexual dimorphism and intergroup differences in the upper and lower first molars. Results indicated no sexual dimorphism in molar size and wear within the studied populations. Despite the great ethnographic variation in subsistence strategies among these populations, our findings suggest that differences in sexual division of labor do not affect dietary wear patterns.

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Section: Sexual Dimorphismsupporting

confidence: 91%

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confidence: 99%

First molar size and wear within and among modern hunter-gatherers and agricultural populations

Górka

Romero

Pérez‐Pérez

2015

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“…A large number of studies have demonstrated that the degree of sexual dimorphism in teeth varies between populations (Bishara et al 1989;Ateş et al 2006;Prabhu and Acharya 2009) as a result of genetic and environmental factors (Kieser 1990;Hughes and Townsend 2013). Therefore, the collection of data from different populations is important for dental sexual dimorphism.…”

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Sex estimation using cervical dental measurements in an archaeological population from Iran

Kazzazi

Kranioti

2016

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Sex estimation of skeletal remains is one of the major components of forensic identification of unknown individuals. Teeth are a potential source of information on sex and are often recovered in archaeological or forensic contexts due to their post-mortem longevity. Currently, there is limited data on dental sexual dimorphism of archaeological populations from Iran. This paper represents the first study to provide a dental sex estimation method for Iron Age populations. The current study was conducted on the skeletal remains of 143 adults from two Iron Age populations in close temporal and geographic proximity in the Solduz Valley (West Azerbaijan Province of Iran). Mesiodistal and buccolingual cervical measurements of 1334 maxillary and mandibular teeth were used to investigate the degree of sexual dimorphism in permanent dentition and to assess their applicability in sex estimation. Data was analysed using discriminant function analysis (SPSS 23), and posterior probabilities were calculated for all produced formulae. The results showed that incisors and canines were the most sexually dimorphic teeth, providing percentages of correct sex classification between 86.4 and 100 % depending on the measurement used. The combination of canines and other teeth improved significantly the level of correct sex classification. The highest percentages of sex classification were obtained by the combination of canines and incisors (100 %) and canines and molars (92.3 %). The present study provided the first reference standards for sex estimation using odontometric data in an Iranian archaeological population. Cervical measurements were found to be of value for sex assessment, and the method presented here can be a useful tool for establishing accurate demographic data from skeletal remains of the Iron Age from Iran.

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“…Teeth in relation to sexual dimorphism have been of prodigious importance to anthropologists and forensic odontologists as well as the focus of many studies for gender assessment 8,9) . Conventional caliper was used by researchers to investigate tooth dimension, to identify the sexual disparities through mesiodistal 4,10,11,12) , buccolingual 9,10,11,12) and diagonal crown 13) diameters of teeth. Geomorphometrics is the quantitative approach that refer to the morphology of an entity depends on landmarks.…”

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Geomorphometrics of Tooth Size and Arch Dimension Analysis by Conventional Digital Caliper and Digital Stereomicroscope to Establish Standard Norms for the Pakistani Population

Shahid

Alam

Khamis

et al. 2015

J. Hard Tissue Biology.

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In order to establish standard norms for the Pakistani population, we investigated the geomorphometrics of tooth size and arch dimension using a conventional digital caliper (DC) and a digital stereomicroscope (SM). The sample consisted of 128 subjects ranging in age from 18 to 24 years. A total of 44,155 variables were measured. Dental models of each subject for maxillary and mandibular arches were scanned via Hirox digital stereomicroscope for the fabrication of the digital models, and the geomorphometrics of tooth size and arch dimensions were measured via SM scanned digital models. All the measurements were also carried out via DC on plaster dental models. Sex differences and changes associated with methods were assessed, and interrelationships between different variables were explored within the study group. For the data obtained by DC and SM techniques, the men had significantly larger arch dimensions and geomorphometrics of tooth size than the women did. There were no significant disparities observed between the techniques. The developed norms for the mesiodistal, buccolingual, diagonal tooth sizes and arch dimension had significantly greater values for males in relation to females (*pd" 0.05 to ***pd" 0.001). This study has established a new reference database of tooth size and arch dimensions via both DC and digital SM for first time on Pakistani population. These norms will be helpful for clinical treatment planning in dentistry. Contemporaneously, the norms will be of great value to forensic dentists and dental anthropologists for making comparisons within and between different populations.

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Sexual differences in Turkish dentition

Cited by 58 publications

References 8 publications

First molar size and wear within and among modern hunter-gatherers and agricultural populations

First molar size and wear within and among modern hunter-gatherers and agricultural populations

Sex estimation using cervical dental measurements in an archaeological population from Iran

Geomorphometrics of Tooth Size and Arch Dimension Analysis by Conventional Digital Caliper and Digital Stereomicroscope to Establish Standard Norms for the Pakistani Population

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