E. Fernández

Alveolar bone loss and dentoalveolar remodelling in pre-Columbian human remains from northern Chile

Alveolar bone loss in archaeological human remains is a composite skeletal outcome influenced by biological ageing, occlusal function, compensatory eruption, antemortem tooth loss, and inflammatory destruction. Accordingly, cementoenamel junction–alveolar crest (CEJ–AC) distance...