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Bulletin of the International Association for Paleodontology, Vol. 9 No. 2, 2015.

Original scientific paper

The Periodontal Disease Status of the Historical Population of Hadrianapolis

Nilsun Bagis orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-4301-8502 ; Department of Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
Asuman Alpagut
Nejat Arpak

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Abstract

It was evaluated in this article relationship between two types of oral pathology, periodontal disease and ante-mortem tooth loss and age in past human populations. The skeletal remains found during the archeological investigations at Hadrianopolis region by Edirne Museum during 2002-2003 were related to Eastern Roman-Byzanteum period. From a total of 139 human skeletal remains were studied. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and the severity of periodontal diseases and ante-mortem tooth loss in the skeletal remains.

Keywords

Periodontal Diseases; Bone Loss, Tooth Loss

Hrčak ID:

150106

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/150106

Publication date:

29.12.2015.

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