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Assessment of occlusal tooth wear in vervet monkeys by reflex microscopy
P van der Bijl1, J de Waal, I A Botha
1Department of Oral Medicine and Periodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, South Africa.
Archives of Oral Biology
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
A biostereometric method was used to assess the tooth wear of monkeys fed either on one of two Western-type diets, which differed in their refined carbohydrate, fat and fibre contents, or on a combination of the two diets. Certain patterns of wear as a function of diet were observed but these could not be explained adequately in terms of diet roughness alone.