The dental tissue proportions of human permanent canines are one of only a few sexually dimorphic features that are present in childhood, and therefore offer the opportunity to estimate the sex of immature individuals. This work aims to evaluate for the first time the degree of sexual dimorphism ‍in the three-dimensional (3D) measurements of deciduous canine dental tissues, to assess their potential in sexual assessment.The results obtained in this study, which employed techniques of virtual ant...

Ante la necesidad de conocer mejor la dentición temporal y dado que la mayoría de las veces estas piezas dentales se acaban desechando, el Grupo de Antropología Dental (GAD) y la Unidad de Cultura Científica e Innovación (UCC+i) del Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) en Burgos, organizan la primera campaña de recogida de dientes en 2014. Con esta idea en mente, nace la colección del Ratón Pérez

Two- and three-dimensional evaluation of dental tissues has become routine in human taxonomic studies over the years. However, most of our knowledge of the variability of enamel and dentin dimensions of the human evolutionary lineage comes from the study of the permanent dentition, and in particular the molars. This leads to a biased view of the variability of these traits. Because of their early formation and rapid development, deciduous teeth allow for more simplified inferences regarding the...