Frecuencia de rasgos dentales no métricos presentes en una muestra de población venezolana de origen italiano, residente en el Estado Mérida

Abstract

The dental characters besides being readily visible to human eye also have a high heritability and can identify specific populations through traits of each ethnic group, like the Italians. The objective of this research is to study the frequency of non-metric dental traits of Venezuelans with Italian descent, resident in Merida state. For this, the ASUDAS methodology was applied in a sample of 12 individuals, men and women, Venezuelan descendants of Italians in first, second and third line, with ages between 16 and 30 years and full integrity of analyzed dental units. Presence/absence of 8 dental morphological features was observed. Data were analyzed with SPSS and frequency measurements were calculated for each variable. The results showed low and moderate frequencies of Carabelli complex, shovel shaped tooth, Y groove and cuspid 6, while for the hypocone and hypoconule, a higher prevalence was obtained.