Evaluating nonmorphological traits of the South Indian population
A study published in Cureus aimed to evaluate the nonmorphological traits of the South Indian population, as few variants can be grouped within the population.
The study collected a total of 500 extracted tooth samples. It evaluated 20 dental non-metric traits and identified 14 traits to be common within the population. Most prevalent was the cusp of Carabelli, at 52%, followed by the shoveled incisor, at 8.2%.
“The current study was discovered to have more Carabelli traits, shoveled incisors, radix entomolaris, and dilaceration than other non-metric features. This shows that these characteristics are more prevalent in the South Indian population, which could be one of the strategies used to validate human identification in a forensic context,” the study concluded.
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