Resumen de A History of Caries in the Middle Ages: Characteristics and Cultural Profiles

Delphine Carayon, Anne Marie Grimoud, Richard Donat, Aymat Catafau, Eric Crubézy, Rémi Esclassan

• In paleopathology, since the mid-1960s, caries and its characteristics have been studied on nnedieval teeth by many different teams in Europe, particularly in relation to the dietary and cultural habits of the populations concerned. The aims of this article are to propose a global study of caries within European medieval populations through various parameters such as prevalence, distribution, location, gender, and diet.