The Health State of Dentition in the Great Moravian Population – a Comparison of the Mikulčice Centre and its Hinterland.
Abstract
In our paper, we evaluated the primary indicator of the state of dentition - caries associated lesions and intravital teeth loss in adult males and females from three Great Moravian localities, the Mikulčice-Kostelisko burial site, the first burial site at Prušánky and from Josefov. The group from Josefov is considered to be a farmar population.
In the case of Prušánky a peasant character of the inhabitants cannot be ruled out. As expected, at all burial sites, females were more often affected than males.
We determined significant differences only in the incidence of intra-vital losses. The correlation between the degree of affliction and age was confirmed.
Significantly greater incidence of caries was recorded in individuals from poorer graves compared to individuals from richer graves. The socio-economically privileged Kostelisko population was characterised by less caries than both village populations.