Dental Anthropology, Application and Methods
- ISBN-10
- 8121000068
- ISBN-13
- 9788121000062
- Pages
- 388
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985
- Publisher
- Inter-India Publications
- Author
- Vallapureddy Rami Reddy
Description
Dental Anthropology, a specialised field of Physical Anthropology, which began in the seventies of the last century made rapid strides in foreign countries, but it is still a 'maiden field' in a vast country like India endowed with diverse bio-cultural-linguistic religious make-ups. The present book contain data on the variation in eruption timings of deciduous and permanent teeth in tribal and non-tribal populations and its association with different bio-social factors; on the prevalence of caries in different ethnic groups by persons, sex, age, teeth etc.; on the phenotypic dental crown morphological trait frequencies and their evolutionary importance among various biologically and anthropologically significant populations; on the metric traits of teeth in eary hominoids, mesolithic hunters, pre-iron age farmers as also living populations; on the day-to-day advances amde in the field of Orthodoatics and the importance of role of diet and nutrition in dental health; and finally on the use of statistical methods in dental anthropological researches, teeth in crime detection, growth of dentistry since time immemorial and the detals of dentrifrices and techniqes in cleaning teeth in rural/ urban populations.
