Revisiting the issue of non-caries dental pathologyin paleoanthropological series based on the 2015-2016excavations in Velikiy Novgorod

The study addresses the cases of non-caries pathology of teeth relatedto premature dental attrition and enamel erosion. The studied cases were identified inanthropological series from the excavations in Velikiy Novgorod (2015-2016) carried outwithin the compound of the St. George’s (Yuryev) Monastery. Local loss of dentum wasidentified in the upper molars from the palatine side and in the mandible from the lingualside as well as in the lingual surface of the upper maxilla incisors and the canine teethand the facial surface of the mandible incisors. In stomatology similar dentum changesare detected in diagnosis of the gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) (Imfeld, 1996;Rabine, Nostrant, 2009; Ranjitkar et al., 2012). The detected cases of teeth erosion from the paleoanthropological series offered an opportunity to look at the loss of dentum asa pathology, reconstruct ways of its development and take into account this attribute inestablishing the biological age.