Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) quantifies microscopic scar or wear patterns left
on teeth by different foods or extraneous ingested items such as grit. It can be a powerful tool …

A common approach to dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) uses confocal
profilometry in concert with scale-sensitive fractal analysis to help understand the diets of …

Background Dental microwear analyses are commonly used to deduce the diet of extinct
mammals. Conventional methods rely on the user identifying features within a 2D image …

One potentially problematic aspect of dental microwear analysis is sensitivity to the
resolution (fineness of detail) at which dental wear surfaces are viewed. Magnification is one …

Dental microwear studies often analyze casts rather than original surfaces, although the
information loss associated with reproduction is rarely considered. To investigate the …

Dental microwear has been used in paleoecology for nearly half a century. The advent of
technologies in the past decade has allowed for enamel surfaces to be scanned in 3D, and …

Dental microwear analysis is commonly used to infer aspects of diet in extinct primates.
Conventional methods of microwear analysis have usually been limited to two-dimensional …

Different diets have been shown to leave characteristic patterns of microwear on the teeth of
various mammalian species. The quantification of microwear features facilitates the …

Dental microwear has long been used as evidence concerning the diets of extinct species.
Here, we present a comparative baseline series of dental microwear textures for a sample of …

Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) is a means for interpreting microscopic features
that form on teeth as a result of mastication. Although initially developed for reconstructing …