Directional dental asymmetry in South Sinai Bedouin isolates

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7637809
AutoresIsrael Hershkovitz (0000-0001-5841-6090, Tel Aviv University), D Moskona, B Arensburg, E Kobyliansky (0000-0001-9691-3813)
Año1987
Volumen45
Número3
Páginas269-274
Fecha de publicación1987-09-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropologischer Anzeiger (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-5548 • E-ISSN: 2363-7099
EditorialSchweizerbart (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1127/anthranz/45/1987/269
PMID3662464
OpenAlexW2407133008
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7

Dental casts of 242 Bedouin children were used to study directional asymmetry (DA). Results of Student's t-test pair comparison showed that for permanent dentition, 4 out of 24 DA measures were statistically significant whereas for deciduous dentition, 8 out of 20 measures were significant (p less than 0.05). The magnitude of DA was on the average 1% of the total size of the tooth. No preference regarding dimension (buccolingual, mesiodistal) or jaw (maxilla, mandible) was detected for the DA. PCA results demonstrated the independent nature of DA measures in the dentition.

Asymmetry · Biology · Deciduous dentition · Dentition · Mandible (arthropod mouthpart) · Maxilla · Permanent dentition · Zoology · Dentistry · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Medicine · Morphological variations and asymmetry · Orthodontics