Tooth Wear and the "Design" of the Human Dentition: A Perspective from Evolutionary Medicine

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 122, Issue SUPPL. 46, 2003, Pages 47-61

  Kaifu, Yousuke ^a   Kasai, Kazutaka ^b   Townsend, Grant C ^c   Richards, Lindsay C ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dental anthropology; Dental occlusion; Evolutionary adaptation; Tooth migration

Indexed keywords

DENTISTRY; DENTITION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; REVIEW; TOOTH DISEASE; TOOTH ERUPTION; TOOTH OCCLUSION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; HOMINID; MALOCCLUSION; MASTICATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DENTITION; EVOLUTION; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALOCCLUSION; MASTICATION; PALEODONTOLOGY; TOOTH ATTRITION; TOOTH ERUPTION;

EID: 0942301482     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.10329     Document Type: Review

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