Living organisms are adept at resisting contact deformation and damage by assembling
protective surfaces with spatially varied mechanical properties, ie, by creating functionally …

Summary Between January and December 2013, the dental and periodontal health of 99
Swedish wild boars (Sus scrofa) was investigated. Sampling occurred in conjunction with …

Pigs are diphyodonts with heterodont dentition and have been used in studies involving
teeth and jawbone regeneration, and dental implants. Patterns of tooth eruption are used to …

Five pathologically modified last generation lower teeth of the wooly mammoth Mammuthus
primigenius from Alazeya River basin (Yakutia) and Maly Anyui River basin (Chukotka) are …

In this paper we report two unique cases of dental development anomalies observed on
prehistoric faunal material from France. The first is a severely malformed first incisor from a …

The aim of this study was to investigate a unique case of polydonty in wild boar from the
early medieval Novgorod (second half of 11th century AD). The only preserved distal part of …

Antemortem domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus) dental pathology literature is sparse. This
observational descriptive study evaluated 23 client-owned pigs that while …

Teeth in the mouth of vertebrates represent the modified descendants of bony dermal plates
of ancestral fishes. Dental disorders, which are deviations of dental tissues origins, are …

The introduced wild pigs (Sus scrofa) in the United States exhibit a broad spectrum of
physical diversity. To a large part, this variability stems from the widely diversified …

The presence of wild boar on the island of Crete has been discussed since the beginning of
Cretan archaeology. Presumed wild individuals are depicted on various types of objects …