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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults
Published on: February 2, 2020
[Features' dental status population of the territory of Ukraine in different historical epochs]
Abstract:
In recent decades, domestic and foreign dentistry actively developing direction associated with the study of the ancient population health. As part of this special issue of the informative value of acquiring individual are extremely fragmented findings of human remains. Therefore the aim of the study was to determine the characteristics of the course of dental caries in the historical aspect by considering anthropological remains of Ukrainian citizens from copper age to the late Middle Ages. During the Bronze Age, Early Iron Age (EIA) in adults caries cavities (CC) are fixed at an age close to 40 years and above. In the copper age population in Ukraine manual were apparently extremely rare, their traces, we have not found. As a continuation of the tightening properties of caries in the EIA (except Class II) have already taken place and CC of V class (many combinations of class II and V) appear damaged teeth and lost, probably as a complication of tooth decay. All of the above prompts to seek new development study of the state of skeletal remains.
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