The paramolar tubercle (Bolk)
The paramolar tubercle (Bolk)
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磨牙旁结节(Bolk)
DOI:
10.1002/ajpa.1330030119
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发表时间:
1945
影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
A. Dahlberg
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作者:
A. Dahlberg
According to the late Prof. L. Bolk (’16) of the Anatomical Institute of tlie University of Amsterdam, a certain cusp known as the paramolar cusp or tubercle could appear on second aid third permanent molars but never on the first permanent molar. 011 this premise he based his theories of human dentition which, however, are not supported by the evidence. Recently instances of such ariornalies were found on the maiiciibular first permanent molars:(1) of a skull in the New Britain Melanesian collection at the Chicago Natural History RJuseum,(2) of a skull in a similar collection at the U. S. National Museum (Smithsonian Institution), aiid (3) in a living white female. Bolk assumed that sapernurnerary teeth were atavisms and ascribed significance to all such findings. Whenever extra teeth or cusps oc-curred he considered them as reversions or represeiitatives of parts of tlie dentitions of the past in our ancestral tree, ie, representatives of teeth whicli had long since been abandoned in the evolution of the dentition. He made much of the fact that supernnumerai* y teeth have been found to appear buccal to and between the first and second permanent molars arid between the second and third permanent molars, but never between tlie last premolar (second bicuspid) and the first permanelit molar. He maintained that tlie liumaii deciduous dentition at one time had more posterior teeth in cadi quadrant than it bas today, but that these were lost in the process of evolution. The lost teeth were supposed to be represented in the modern liumaii dentition by the occasional appearance of supernnnierary teeth buccal to arid between the molars. He believed tliat these teeth, which lie called paramolars, sometimes fused with the adjacent permanent molars of present dentitions during development and left only a cusp 0x1 the molars as evidence of their former presence. This cusp, which is fourid occasionally on the an-terior yJor* tion of the buccal surface of the second arid third molars, is called the paramolar tubercle and is the one that is so significant in Bolk’s work (fig. 1). Bolk failed to find this cusp on any of the first