KASKOVA L. F., NIKOLISHIN A. K., ZAYTSEV A. V., ARTEMY’EV A. V. Features of caries evolution and development.

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       The history of dentistry is closely related to the disclosure of matters of dental caries. This disease is the most studied and, despite the progress achieved in recent years, as in the study of its etiology and pathogenesis, as well as in the prevention and treatment remains a very common.

     This situation leaves the problem of caries interested physicians and other researchers depending on the degree of development of medicine offered different theories of its origin. However, to respond fully to all the questions related to the emergence and manifestations of carious disease, none of them has failed. It is urgent to analyze progress in the development of knowledge in this field of science. The objective is to determine the most likely perspective way of knowing the essence of caries disease.

    Materials were the scientific sources for the study of dental caries and the beginning of the last century and our own studies of dental caries in 499 old people (from the Copper Age to the Middle Ages), the remains of which were discovered as a result of archaeological excavations on the territory of Ukraine (resulting in the growth of the main indicators of graphics caries in historical perspective have been received). A comparison of existing theories and institutional factors in the emergence and development of human dental caries and the comparative mathematical multivariate analysis (method of dot graphs) pathology on Odontology of fossil material and subfossil.

     It is found that the factor of the food effect on other causes of dental caries, and there is an output of interacting factors. On the charts the evolution of carious areas identified it as the dental organ pathology and like human pathology. Graphically found one in a series of interrelated exponents that usually characterize the development of living systems in biology. It shows the effect of the general rules on the transformation of quantity into quality, but not once, as periodically.

    It follows that the beginning of one of these exponents associated with some qualitative change in the human body, which led to changes in the teeth-jaw system to the state in which it is now. And the end of exhibitors indicates that there will be new qualitative changes affecting both the teeth-jaw system and body as a whole.

This study shows that the attraction to the problems associated with biological phenomena, comparative evolutionary methods, used for the first time by Mechnikov I.I. can bring the deadlock problem in the way of solving it.

    These findings may serve as a guide for further in-depth study of anthropological material, which can give not generalized and applied conclusions. Apparently, the true reasons for the emergence and development of caries can be established only after a thorough study of its manifestations in the teeth of the skeletons of the last communities from ancient times. Most likely, these studies will be used techniques have emerged in recent years of integrated science.

    However, it should mention that we obtained graphs apply only to the ancient population of the territory of the Left-Bank Ukraine.

Keywords: caries, skeleton, teeth, graphics, era.