Citation

Cieślik AI, Dąbrowski P, Przysiężna-Pizarska MA. Int. J. Paleopathol. 2017; 17: 75-78.

Affiliation

Department of Archaeology, Institute of History, University of Opole, Opole, Poland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ijpp.2017.02.003

PMID

28521914

Abstract

A variety of injuries have always been associated with violence, consequences of which people had to deal with. In this paper we present a complex of craniofacial and dental injuries resulted from sharp force trauma. The basis of our study was historical skeletal material excavated from archeological site in Byczyna (11th-17th century), Poland. An individual whose skeleton was exhumed from the grave No. 610 exhibited healed, oblique trauma of the left maxilla, damage to the crowns of right central and lateral incisors and concomitant luxation of the right maxillary central incisor. We describe the mechanism of this trauma and complications that resulted from damage to the masticatory apparatus.

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Language: en

Keywords

Dentoalveolar trauma; Tooth injury; Violence related trauma; Wound healing