The Dental Pathology Analysis of Van-Karagündüz (Medieval Age) Adults

Objectives: The skeletal remains belonging to 188 individuals with jaws and teeth from the medieval cemetery region of the first structured level of the Van-Karagündüz H？yük have been investigated in order to study the pathological lesions. Materials and Methods: The material of this study is consisted of belonging to a total of 188 adult individuals, who composed from 81 women (43.09%) and 107 men (56,91%) (2734 permanent teeth and 283 jaws). Findings: In the permanent teeth of adults, tooth wear was 95.54%, dental caries was 6.36%, hypoplasia was 24.91%, dental calculus was 25.90%, abscess was 1.86%, alveolar loss in periodontal diseases was 40.64% and (premortem) tooth loss is seen in proportion as18,73%. Conclusions: The Karagündüz medieval society's nutrition regime, which is generally thought to have a lifestyle based on agriculture and animal husbandry, is generally consisted from well grinded, but somewhat fibrous and hard nutrients