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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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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Similar associations of tooth microwear and morphology indicate similar diet across marsupial and placental mammals. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Low-magnification microwear techniques have been used effectively to infer diets within many unrelated mammalian orders, but the extent to which patterns are comparable among such different groups, including long extinct mammal lineages, is unknown ...
Hilary B Christensen
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Diet reduces the effect of exogenous grit on tooth microwear [PDF]
Biosurface and Biotribology, 2020 Exogenous grit adherent to the surface of food items and food fracture properties have each been considered important factors contributing to pattern and degree of tooth wear in mammals.
Licheng Hua +4 more
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Biosurface and Biotribology, 2017 Understanding the diets and trophic relationships of toothed whales is central to understanding their roles in marine ecosystems, and associated conservation issues.
Mark A. Purnell +3 more
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Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of the Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) From the Selenka Collection. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives Characterizing the diet of extant taxa is important not only to determine their ecological niche but also to serve as a reference for dietary and niche inferences in evolutionary studies. Tracking the diets of fossil taxa and their change through time has been increasingly employed to further understand the evolution of primates. In
Habinger SG +5 more
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Multi-proxy dentition analyses reveal niche partitioning between sympatric herbivorous dinosaurs [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Dentitions of the sympatric herbivorous dinosaurs Hungarosaurus (Ankylosauria, Nodosauridae) and Mochlodon (Ornithopoda, Rhabdodontidae) (Santonian, Hungary) were analysed to investigate their dietary ecology, using several complementary methods ...
Attila Ősi +9 more
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Trophic evolution in ornithopod dinosaurs revealed by dental wear [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsOrnithopod dinosaurs evolved numerous craniodental innovations related to herbivory. Nonetheless, the relationship between occlusion, tooth wear rate, and tooth replacement rate has been neglected. Here, we reconstruct tooth wear rates by measuring tooth
Attila Ősi +9 more
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The Meaning of Mangabey Molars (And Premolars). [PDF]
Evol AnthropolABSTRACT The postcanine teeth of mangabeys (members of Cercocebus and Lophocebus) have figured prominently in discussions about the relationship between hard‐object feeding and dental form. Grey‐cheeked mangabeys (Lophocebus albigena) and sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) both have thickly enameled posterior teeth.
Guatelli-Steinberg D, Scott McGraw W.
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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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