Digital analysis of tooth microwear, a potential application for dental microwear monitor [PDF]
Biosurface and Biotribology, 2022 In general, tooth wear is difficult to be noticed until it leads to toothache in vivo. Developing a dynamic dental wear monitoring system to predict tooth wear in daily life is a necessity.
Gang Xue +3 more
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Anterior dental microwear texture analysis of the Krapina Neandertals [PDF]
Open Geosciences, 2012 Some Neandertal anterior teeth show unusual and excessive gross wear, commonly explained by non-dietary anterior tooth use, or using the anterior dentition as a tool, clamp, or third hand. This alternate use is inferred from aboriginal arctic populations,
Krueger Kristin, Ungar Peter
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Experimental approaches to assess the effect of composition of abrasives in the cause of dental microwear [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Dental microwear is used to investigate feeding ecology. Animals ingest geological material in addition to food. The full effect of geological abrasives on tooth wear is unknown.
Matthew C. Mihlbachler +2 more
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The primate community of Cachoeira (Brazilian Amazonia): a model to decipher ecological partitioning among extinct species. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Dental microwear analysis is conducted on a community of platyrrhine primates from South America. This analysis focuses on the primate community of Cachoeira Porteira (Para, Brazil), in which seven sympatric species occur: Alouatta seniculus, Ateles ...
Anusha Ramdarshan +3 more
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Dietary Habits and Tusk Usage of Shovel-Tusked Gomphotheres from Florida: Evidence from Stereoscopic Wear of Molars and Upper and Lower Tusks [PDF]
Biology, 2022 The paleodiet of the shovel-tusked gomphotheres from Florida (Amebelodon floridanus, Konobelodon britti, and Serbelodon barbourensis) was assessed via microwear analysis of molar dental enamel and compared to a large database of both extant proboscideans
Gina M. Semprebon +2 more
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On the use of dental microwear texture analysis to determine aetiology and assess wear of dental tissues for clinical evaluation [PDF]
Biosurface and BiotribologyHere, we present and synthesise some recent collaborative efforts in our laboratories to establish protocols for using dental microwear texture analysis, originally developed to reconstruct diets of fossil mammals and to aid in the clinical assessment of
Peter S. Ungar, Anderson T. Hara
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A comprehensive dataset and image-set for exploring buccal dental microwear in late prehistory farming groups from northeastern Iberian Peninsula [PDF]
Data in BriefThis data article presents a comprehensive buccal dental microwear raw database, accompanied by all corresponding archaeological sample micrographs acquired through a ZEISS Axioscope A1 optical microscopy (OM).
Raquel Hernando
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Spatial organisation within the earliest evidence of post-built structures in Britain. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis paper explores tool-using activities undertaken in and around the earliest known evidence of post-built structures in Britain. Microwear results associated with at least three structures identified at the Early Mesolithic site of Star Carr, North ...
Jessica Bates +3 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Mastication of dietary items with different mechanical properties leaves distinctive microscopic marks on the surface of tooth enamel. The inspection of such marks (dental microwear analysis) is informative about the dietary habitus in fossil as well as in modern species.
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Dental microwear texture analysis along reptile tooth rows: complex variation with non-dietary variables [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) is a powerful technique for reconstructing the diets of extant and extinct taxa. Few studies have investigated intraspecific microwear differences along with tooth rows and the influence of endogenous non-dietary ...
Jordan Bestwick +3 more
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