豫鲁新石器时代人类牙槽疾病的初步观察

对13例新石器时代人类的牙槽疾病进行了分析,发现龋病、牙槽萎缩、磨损为主要疾病。中国口腔矫形史有理由可追溯到商代末期。

A PRELIMINARY SURVEY ON DENTOALVEOLAR DISEASES OF NEOLITHIC HUMAN BEINGS IN CHINA

There are skeletal specimens stored in Antiropological Department of Institute of Verte-brate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica. These specimens include one skull, seven maxillary bones, four mandibles and one third molar. The main dentoalveolar diseases are dental caries, alveolar atrophy and wear. Other eight kinds are only a few cases as tooth fracture, malposed tooth, tooth elongation, microdontia, dentoalveolar abscess, periodontal ab-scess, embedded tooth and dentoalveolar deformity. The historical ages of these skeletons were from 5,000 to 3,000 years before, representing the late neolithic period to Shang Dynasty. In this way, the historic research work of Chinese ancient human beings' oral diseases will be pu-shed up to 3,000 years ahead. At that time, the neolithic period, the central district of China had a higher culture already. The oral disease presented seems almost like the recent Chinese.