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Dental Wear: Attrition, Erosion, and Abrasion?A Palaeo-Odontological Approach #MMPMID29563425
Sperber GH
Dent J (Basel) 2017[Jun]; 5 (2): ä PMID29563425show ga
This paper reviews the surface ablation of early hominin teeth by attrition, abrasion, and erosive dental wear. The occurrence of these lesions is explored in a sample of South African fossil australopithecine dentitions revealing excessive wear. Interpretation of the nature of the dietary components causing such wear in the absence of carious erosion provides insight into the ecology of the Plio-pleistocene epoch (1?2 million years ago). Fossil teeth inform much of the living past by their retained evidence after death. Tooth wear is the ultimate forensic dental evidence of lives lived.