The aim of this study was to evaluate the oral health and diet of a Medieval Muslim sample from Granada in southern Spain (11th – 15th centuries), in which the sex and age of the remains had been established. Carious lesions, linear enamel hypoplasia, dental calculus and tooth wear were the pathologies examined in this paper. A total of 961 permanent teeth and 1009 alveoli belonging to sixty individuals (32 males and 28 females) were observed. Adult males exhibited significantly higher prevalence of tooth wear, while females exhibited higher prevalence of caries and dental calculus. The highest frequency of linear enamel hypoplasia was determined in juvenile individuals. Additionally, a peak age at stress of 2.5 to 3 years was recorded in the sample. This paper showed that frequency and distribution of dental pathologies in the Medieval population of Granada is very similar to that other agricultural European populations of the same socio-economic status during the same historic period. The level of caries and dental calculus could be associated with a carbohydrate-rich diet with only occasional consumption of meat. Furthermore, significant differences between adult men and women in the sample studied suggest different nutritional patterns during adulthood with females consuming food mostly based on carbohydrates in comparison to males.

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• dějiny středověku * MeSH
• epidemiologické faktory MeSH
• epidemiologické studie MeSH
• hypoplazie zubní skloviny epidemiologie   etiologie   MeSH
• islám MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• nemoci zubů * epidemiologie   etiologie   klasifikace   MeSH
• opotřebení zubů epidemiologie   etiologie   MeSH
• statistika jako téma MeSH
• stravovací zvyklosti MeSH
• věkové faktory MeSH
• zubní kámen epidemiologie   etiologie   MeSH
• zubní kaz epidemiologie   MeSH
• zubní sklovina patologie   MeSH
• zuby patologie   MeSH
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• dějiny středověku * MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mužské pohlaví MeSH
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• Publikační typ
• historické články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Španělsko MeSH

Aim: To assess the association between tooth wear (TW) and gingival recession (GR). Materials and Methods: Two hundred and ten orthodontically treated participants (100 males) were evaluated. GR and TW were rated independently by four raters on plaster models at four time points: before treatment (T1), mean age 13.8 years (SD = 3.7); after treatment (T2), mean age 16.7 years (SD = 3.9); 3 years after treatment (T3), mean age 19.7 years (SD = 4.2); and 7 years after treatment (T4), mean age 23.9 years (SD = 4.8). Univariable and mulitvariable random effects logistic regression analyses were performed with scores for GR as dependent variables and with TW, age, gender, dental segments (maxillary and mandibular anterior and posterior segments), time points, and Angle classification as independent variables. Method reliability was assessed with kappa statistics. Results: Mandibular incisors, mandibular and maxillary first premolars and maxillary first molars were most vulnerable to GR. The prevalence of GR increased during the observation period. At T1 20.5% participants had one or more recession sites, at T4 85.7 % of the participants had at least one GR. There was evidence of association between moderate/severe TW and GR-for a tooth with moderate/severe wear, the odds of recession were 23% higher compared to a tooth with no/mild wear (odds ratio 1.23; 95% CI: 1.08-1.40; P = 0.002). Age, dental segment, and time were also significant recession predictors, whereas gender was not. Conclusions: There is evidence that moderate/severe TW is associated with the presence of gingival recession. Clinical significance of this can be limited.

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• dítě MeSH
• dospělí MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• malokluze MeSH
• mandibula patologie   MeSH
• mladiství MeSH
• mladý dospělý MeSH
• následné studie MeSH
• opotřebení zubů etiologie   patologie   MeSH
• ortodoncie korekční škodlivé účinky   MeSH
• reprodukovatelnost výsledků MeSH
• retrospektivní studie MeSH
• řezáky patologie   MeSH
• ústup dásní etiologie   patologie   MeSH
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• dítě MeSH
• dospělí MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mladiství MeSH
• mladý dospělý MeSH
• mužské pohlaví MeSH
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH

Researches on the pattern of buccal dental microwear (striations) in a relation to diet and dietary habits have been solidified after the year 1980. The density of striations, orientation, and length are discriminate variables in reconstructing paleodiet. Populations who depended, more on meat consumption tended to have a lower density of striations with a higher percentage of vertical striations. On the other hand, individuals who depended on more plant consumption tended to have higher density of striations with more horizontal ones. In contrast to occlusal dental microwear, buccal microwear is practically a proxy for the lifetime diet of an individual without any effect of nonmasticatory factors, and thus can be used to construct diet, dietary behavior, climatic fluctuations, and maybe to estimate the age at death and sex. By comparing buccal dental microwear to the other techniques used in reconstructing paleodiet, the technique is reliable and shows a great potential in dietary reconstructions.

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• fyziologie výživy MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mikroabraze zubní skloviny MeSH
• mikroskopie metody   MeSH
• opotřebení zubů * dějiny   etiologie   MeSH
• paleolitická dieta * MeSH
• zubní sklovina patologie   MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• historické články MeSH

It is well established that tooth condition is a highly important exponent of overall human health. This study aims to determine the severity, prevalence and distribution of tooth wear during the developmental stages of children, living in medieval Poland based upon skeletal research material sourced from medieval polish cemeteries. The assessment included 237 primary, and 145 permanent human teeth, aged up to 7 years (infans I group) and between 8-15 years of age (infans II group). The degree of tooth wear was determined on the basis of a six-degree scale. In primary dentition, the prevalence of tooth wear ranged from 71.2 to 83.3 % in the infans I group and 83.3 to 92.3 % in the infans II group. The infans I group displayed the most advanced tooth wear of primary incisors, with dentine exposed on significant areas of masticating surfaces and presence of enamel islets, compared with least noticeable tooth wear to the molars. In the infans II group the most pronounced tooth wear with dentine fully exposed was observed in primary molars and canines. The degree of tooth wear found in primary dentition in molar and canine teeth group was more significant in the infans II group than in the infans I group ( p = 0.0001 and 0.0012). This study concluded that the examined primary teeth of medieval children showed significantly worn enamel and dentine. It also concluded that the degree of tooth wear of the primary canines and molars into the dentin, increased significantly with progression of the individual’s age, thus confirming it to be an inevitable process of normal physiological wear of teeth and evolving relationship within the masticatory system.

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• dějiny středověku MeSH
• dentin patologie   MeSH
• dítě MeSH
• hřbitovy dějiny   MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• opotřebení zubů * dějiny   epidemiologie   etiologie   patologie   MeSH
• prořezávání zubů MeSH
• statistika jako téma MeSH
• tělesné pozůstatky MeSH
• věkové faktory MeSH
• Check Tag
• dějiny středověku MeSH
• dítě MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• historické články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Polsko MeSH

• MeSH
• dentální technologie metody   MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• opotřebení zubů * diagnóza   etiologie   klasifikace   ošetřování   terapie   MeSH
• preparace zubu metody   přístrojové vybavení   MeSH
• trvalá zubní náhrada * metody   využití   MeSH
• zubní artikulátory využití   MeSH
• zubní korunky klasifikace   MeSH
• žvýkání fyziologie   MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH