Avtor/Urednik		Leben-Seljak, Petra; Štefančič, Marija
Naslov		Dental caries in skeletal samples from northeastern Slovenia
Prevedeni naslov		Karies v skeletnih serijah severovzhodne Slovenije
Tip		članek
Vir		Anthropol Noteb
Vol. in št.		Letnik 7, št. 1
Leto izdaje		2001
Obseg		str. 84-99
Jezik		eng
Abstrakt		Mankind has been accompanied by dental caries from Neolithic times onward. Our purpose was to present its frequency in three skeletal samples from northeastern Slovenia: Brezje 1 near Zreče and Ptuj-Caissa belong to the Late Roman period, while Središče by the Drava river belongs to the Middle Ages. The individual count, tooth count and per specimen count methods were used to determine the prevalence of dental caries and ante-mortem tooth loss (AMTL), separately by sex, age, and tooth type for each sample: Comparisons with old Slavic populations from Turnišče, Ptuj, and Brezje II were also carried out. The increasing trend of dental caries prevalence (tooth count) from the Roman period to the Middle Ages was confirmed. We found that the majority of skeletons from Ptuj-Caissa had affected teeth (2.5%). The prevalence was the same in all Old Slavic series (4.1%), while in the medieval sample from Središče it was a little higher (7.1%). The only exception was the Late Roman Brezje I sample. We expected a similar frequency as in the contemporary sample Ptuj-Caissa, but in fact it was the highest of all (14.8%). In contrast to the others, dental caries in the Brezje I sample was very common in all age categories, including juveniles, and was observed on all types of teeth, not only on molars and premolars. We assume that the high frequency was more probably related to a genetic factor than to the different diet.
Izvleček		Karies spremlja človeštvo že od neolitika dalje. V naši raziskavl smo želeli predstaviti pogostnost kariesa v dveh poznoantičnih skeletnih serijah: Brezje 1 pri Zrečah in Ptuj-Caissa ter v srednjeveški seriji Središče ob Dravi. Frekvenco kariesa smo prikazall na tri načine (delež oseb s karioznimi zobmi, delež karioznih zob in povprečno število karioznih zob na osebo), ločeno po spolu, starostnih kategorijah in tipih zob. Naše podatke smo primerjali s podatki za staroslovanske serije Turnišče, Ptuj in Brezje II. Ugotovili smo, da od pozne antike do srednjega veka obolelost za karlesom narašča. V skeletni seriji Ptuj-Caissa je karies prisoten le pri 2,5% zob. Pri staroslovanskih serijah delež karioznih zob naraste na 4,1 %, pri srednjeveški seriji Središče pa smo ugotovili že 7,1% karioznih zob. Temu trendu pa ne sledi poznoantična serija Brezje I, pri kateri smo ugotovili precej višji delež karioznih zob (14,8%. Pri tej seriji je karies zelo pogost pri vseh starostnih kategorijah, vključno z juvenilnimi skeleti, in pri vseh tipih zob. Pri ostalih serijah je karies prisoten le pri starejših osebah in predvsem na molarjih in premolarjih. Predpostavljamo, da je visoka frekvenca kariesa verjetneje povezana z genetskim faktorjem kot pa z razliko v prehrani.
Deskriptorji		DENTAL CARIES ROMAN WORLD SEX FACTORS AGE FACTORS PREVALENCE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE, ANCIENT