Dental Diseases in Japanese Skeletal Remains

III. Kofun Period

Bibliographic Data

ID19261819
AuthorsNaohiko Inoue (Department of Oral Surgery, University Branch Hospital, The University of Tokyo), Ching Hui KUO (Department of Oral Surgery, University Branch Hospital, The University of Tokyo), Gakuji ITO (Department of Orthodontics, Kagoshima University Dental School of Medicine), Tetsuya KAMEGAI (Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Iwate Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry)
Year1981
Volume89
Issue4
Pages419-426
Publication date1981-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Anthropological Society of Nippon (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-5505 • E-ISSN: 1884-765X
PublisherAnthropological Society of Nippon (PUBLISHER • JP)
DOI10.1537/ase1911.89.419
OpenAlexW4237174510
LanguageEN
Citations received4

For the purpose of studying. the reduction of human dentition, an examination of dental diseases in the Kofun period was undertaken. Materials used were 22 maxillae and 21 mandibles with permanent or mixed dentitions, selected from 105 Japanese skulls from the Kofun period (protohistoric age of Japan). As the number of materials available was not sufficient to represent the character of the population, the purpose of this paper might be limited just to present the data obtained. By comparing these data to those from the later Jomon, Kamakura, and modern ages, however, it might still be possible to consider tentatively that the specificity of dental diseases in this period was similar to that in the later Jomon period, but more serious. The environmental pollution factor also seemed to be the main pathogenetic factor in the Kofun period, but a larger influence of the discrepancy than in the Jomon period was evident

Dentition · Environmental health · Geography · Maxilla · Period (music) · Population · Demography · Dentistry · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Medicine