A Preliminary Scanning Electron Microscope Examination of Wear Striation Direction on Primate Teeth
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Dental Research
- Vol. 58 (1) , 525-530
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00220345790580011401
Abstract
Wear striations experimentally produced on initially unworn teeth were examined at high magnification using a scanning electron microscope. Certain characteristics of individual wear striations on these teeth indicate the direction of motion that produced them. Other striations on worn teeth of American Indians and the Paleocene primate Phenocolemur show similar characteristics and correspond to mandibular movement during mastication.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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