Dental Wear from the point of view of the anthropologists and of the clinicians

The understanding of the stomatognathic system is supported by the observation of recent modern humans in comparison to past populations. For this reason, the collaboration between dentists and anthropologists could allow reaching higher levels of knowledge, as we discussed during the AnthropologyCA workshop, San José, March 2023 https://wennergren.org/grantee/cinzia-fornai/ an event organized by VieSID and the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Costa Rica .

During this event, dental wear was discussed both from the point of view of the anthropologists and of the clinicians. Extended debate on these different but not mutually exclusive interpretations of dental wear were recently published in two separate articles in the Argentinian Journal of Biological Anthropology, by Andrea Cucina https://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/raab/article/view/15304 and by Miguel Assis and Alejandra Londoño https://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/raab/article/view/16597 .

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