Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 95. (Budapest 2003)

Évinger, S.: Paleostomatological investigation of the anthropological findings from the Avar period cemeteries of Toponár and Fészerlak

RESULTS Toponár A total of 70 adults from the exhumed 150 individuals were suitable for oral pathological analysis. We were able to register the abrasion and carious lesions in the case of 57 people, while the number of skulls fit for the examination of enamel hypoplasias was 61 (those who had at least one examinable front tooth). The age index concerning the 70 adults was 37.7. The optimal number of teeth was 2163, the number of premortem lost teeth was 280, the number of in vivo (i.e. present at decease) teeth was 1883, the number of examinable teeth was 1227, while the number of postmortem lost teeth (in which are included the teeth belonging to the missing jaw pieces) was 656. The number of postmortem lost teeth belonging to the examinable jaw-surface was 450. The average level of abrasion was 3.34 which corresponds with the abrasio superficialis II. (3rd degree on the scale of HUSZÁR and SCHRANZ (1952)). The value of ADI was 65.16. For calculation of dental indices, we could use the data of the 57 individuals only. In their case, the optimal number of teeth was 1761, the number of carious teeth was 222, the number of premortem lost teeth was 253 and the number of radices was 4. The number of examinable teeth was 921. The value of CE was 8.33, the CRE index was 38.91. The value of the examinable jaw-surface was 1558, which was the sum of the examinable teeth (921), the premortem lost teeth (253) and the postmortem lost teeth (384, teeth belonging to missing jaw parts were not included) of the 57 people. The total value of the 222 carious lesions was 505 and the advanced CRE was 1.31. The number of front teeth suitable for the examination of enamel hypoplasia was 399, while the number of front teeth with enamel hypoplasia was 155. The HDI was 54.51. There was only one senile female in the sample. We presented her data in the tables, but they could not be evaluated in themselves. Therefore, during the discussion of the alterations, we did not refer to her data, but we used them for the statistical analyses, drawn together with the data of the other females (for the comparison of males and females) and with the mature age group (for the comparison of age groups). 84.2% of the skulls had at least one carious lesion (Table 2). The differences between males and females or among age groups were not significant. 24.1% of the examined teeth were carious (Table 3). The adultus age group had the greatest number of decayed teeth (26.45%) while the juveniles had the least (11.11%). The