Purpose: This systematic review on abfraction studied whether stress is a mechanism in the
formation of noncarious cervical lesions (NCCLs). Methods: A literature search was …

Background Dental biomechanics based on finite element (FE) analysis is attracting
enormous interest in dentistry, biology, anthropology and palaeontology. Nonetheless …

Teeth must fracture foods while avoiding being fractured themselves. This study evaluated
dome biomechanical models used to describe tooth strength. Finite-element analysis (FEA) …

Prehistoric dental treatments were extremely rare and the few documented cases are known
from the Neolithic, when the adoption of early farming culture caused an increase of carious …

Enamel thickness continues to be an important morphological character in hominin
systematics and is frequently invoked in dietary reconstructions of Plio-Pleistocene hominin …

Human dentin consists of a primary layer produced during tooth formation in early childhood
and a second layer which first forms upon tooth eruption and continues throughout life …

Most of the morphological features recognized in hominin teeth, particularly the topography
of the occlusal surface, are generally interpreted as an evolutionary functional adaptation for …

Abstract Locality 1, in the Lower Cave of the Zhoukoudian cave complex, China, is one of
the most important Middle Pleistocene paleoanthropological and archaeological sites …

Enamel thickness figures prominently in studies of human evolution, particularly for
taxonomy, phylogeny, and paleodietary reconstruction. Attention has focused on molar …

Taurodontism (ie enlarged pulp chamber with concomitant apical displacement of the root
bi/trifurcation) is considered a dental anomaly with relatively low incidence in contemporary …