Gracias a los niños y niñas que han donado sus dientes a través de campañas de recogida realizadas en toda España, la Colección se acerca a las 4.000 piezas dentales, la mayoría de las cuales son caninos e incisivos
The Ratón Pérez collection is the result of a citizen science project that began to take shape in 2014 at the National Centre for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH) in Burgos, through tooth collection campaigns carried out in the framework of the European Researchers' Night.
From 20 to 24 September, the eighth edition of this campaign organised by the CENIEH will take place, with the collaboration of the "la Caixa" Foundation and the Caja de Burgos Foundation, as well as the FECYT, with the aim of continuing to expand its collection of milk teeth for paleoanthropological and forensic research.
The CENIEH Dental Anthropology Group publishes an article in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology on this reference collection which, thanks to donations from all over Spain, has nearly 3,000 milk teeth for palaeoanthropological and forensic research.