Frequency of Dental Caries in Four Historical Populations from the Chalcolithic to the Middle Ages

Table 2

Number and frequency of tooth presence and absence and caries location for four burial sites.

Burial site	Saint-Michel				Marsan				Les Treilles				Vilarnau
Tooth type	Molars	Premolars	Canines	Incisors	Molars	Premolars	Canines	Incisors	Molars	Premolars	Canines	Incisors	Molars	Premolars	Canines	Incisors
Presence/absence
Number of teeth expected	492	328	164	328	396	264	132	264	144	96	48	96	696	464	232	464
Teeth present; Number	348	281	144	293	293	253	119	126	89	33	21	14	410	401	205	360
Frequency	0.70	0.85	0.87	0.89	0.73	0.95	0.90	0.47	0.61	0.34	0.43	0.14	0.58	0.86	0.88	0.77
Antemortem tooth loss; Number	33	7	1	41	41	12	2	1	29	5	3	8	125	15	0	6
Frequency	0.06	0.02	0.06	0.12	0.10	0.04	0.01	0.003	0.20	0.05	0.06	0.08	0.17	0.03	0	0.01
Postmortem tooth loss; Number	24	20	8	8	8	13	16	103	26	58	24	74	121	48	27	98
Frequency	0.04	0.06	0.04	0.02	0.02	0.04	0.12	0.39	0.18	0.60	0.5	0.77	0.17	0.10	0.11	0.21
Caries location
Cervical; Number	3	0	0	0	15	12	3	3	11	1	0	0	2	1	0	0
Frequency	0.86	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.12	4.74	2.52	2.38	7.28	2.44	0.00	0.00	0.44	0.25	0.00	0.00
Occlusal; Number	25	0	0	0	83	30	7	6	5	0	0	0	100	8	0	1
Frequency	7.18	0.00	0.00	0.00	28.33	11.86	5.88	4.76	3.31	0.00	0.00	0.00	22.22	2.00	0.00	0.30
Proximal; Number	18	18	2	3	74	43	10	8	2	0	0	0	23	35	8	11
Frequency	5.17	6.41	1.39	1.37	25.26	17.00	8.40	6.35	1.32	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.11	8.73	3.88	3.25
Radicular; Number	5	3	0	0	26	22	6	3	2	0	0	0	8	2	0	0
Frequency	1.44	1.07	0.00	0.00	8.87	8.70	5.04	2.38	1.32	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.78	0.50	0.00	0.00
Pulpar; Number	28	10	2	1	48	25	7	4	0	0	0	0	28	17	3	3
Frequency	8.05	3.56	1.39	0.46	16.38	9.88	5.88	3.17	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	6.22	4.24	1.46	0.89