The Open Anthropology Journal

2010, 3 : 12-15
Published online 2010 January 20. DOI: 10.2174/1874912701003010012
Publisher ID: TOANTHJ-3-12

Prevalence Profile of Oral Disease in Ancient Population

X. Zhang , J. Dai , Y.X. Han and J.L. Shao
Department of Orthodontics, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710032, China

ABSTRACT

Oral disease has a close relationship with the subsistence patterns and attracts great attention in the paleopathological research all over the world. This review provides an overview of the general situation of the oral disease during the different historical era trying to mouse out the pathogeny and the rule of course of such diseases.

Keywords:

Ancient population, caries, periodontal disease, dental attrition.