Tooth wear and the βdesignβ of the human
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Yousuke Kaifu; Kazutaka Kasai; Grant C. Townsend; Lindsay C. Richards
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Worn, flat occlusal surfaces and anterior edge-to-edge occlusion are ubiquitous among the dentitions of prehistoric humans. The concept of attritional occlusion was proposed in the 1950s as a hypothesis to explain these characteristics. The main aspects of this hypothesis are: 1) the dentitions of a