Anthropological Characteristics of the Clinical Dental Crown in Ethnic Bulgarians
Year: 2022
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The disertation aims to study the diagnostic and predictor value of certain anthropological indicators - medio-distal, vestibulo-oral size and height of the clinical dental crown. After measuring these odontometric indicators with the help of modern statistical analyzes, a sex and interpopulation comparison was made in order to verify their application in determining sex and the specific population. Dental and interdental indices were calculated on the basis of the measured dental dimensions. Sex and interpopulation comparisons were made again. We compared these indices with those calculated for Eneolithic people found in Bulgaria and thus checked the reduction in the size of some teeth, evolutionary processes and trends in reducing the number of teeth. This can create prerequisites and conditions for making a detailed dental profile as part of the biological profile of the individual. We believe that these results will find application in forensic practice for identification of the individual, also in anthropology to clarify evolutionary processes, as well as in dentistry for maximum clinical results in orthodontics, prosthetic and aesthetic dentistry. The results can be used to derive modern normative values of dental dimensions and indices for the Bulgarian population.
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7132680615