Dental pathologies and anomalies in a sample of human skulls from the Mausoleum Crypt of the First World War heroes in Iași (Romania)

Abstract

The present study describes odontopathies and anomalies identified in a sample of 50 human skulls collected from the Mausoleum Crypt of the World War I Heroes in Iași-Calea Galata (Iași County, Romania). The skulls, found during the rehabilitation project of the edifice in 2020-2021, belonged to four adolescents (three males and one female), 25 young adults (22 males and three females), 19 middle adults (males) and two old adults (males). The distribution by sex indicates a high frequency of males (i.e., 46 males and four females: a masculinity index of 8.69). In the analysed sample, the following dental pathologies and anomalies were identified: caries (22%), enamel hypoplasia (18%), supragingival calculus (16%), radicular remains (12%), radicular cyst (4%), edentia (4%), and accessory cusps (2%).

Keywords

• odontopathies and anomalies
• human teeth
• mausoleum of world war i heroes – iași romania