Reading Between the Lines: Dental Development and Subadult Age Assessment Using the Microstructural Growth Markers of Teeth

Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 237-263

  Fitzgerald, Charles M ^b   Rose, Jerome C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dental anatomy; Hard tissue producing cells; Histology of tooth growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873305044     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470245842.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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