The transition from hunting and gathering to farming, spanning about 14,000 years of human evolution, is a significant cultural milestone that imposed evolutionary constraints on diet and led to dramatic changes in the physiology and function of the human masticatory apparatus. Thus, resulting in a higher prevalence of dental pathologies such as dental crowding, abfractions, caries, teeth impaction and so on.

The development of advanced digital and technological methodologies provided new opportunities to explore evolutionary changes and to reveal their association with current dental pathologies. Understanding our evolutionary history might shed light on the origin of oral diseases and might contribute to the development of preventive and therapeutic strategies.

Professor Rachel Sarig DMD, Ph.D., a specialist in orthodontics, Associate Prof.

Prof. Rachel Sarig recently was nominated as the new head of the Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine, the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.

Sarig is an Associate Professor at…