The Study Of Oral Diseases Of The Population From Banpo Museum About 6,000 Years Ago In China

People's oral disease was an old disease, which was continually variational as the people's evolvement. In order to prevent the damage of oral disease to people's bodies, scholars researched the disease continually, so that they could find the rule of the appearance and development of oral disease and control it. But the data about the development of oral disease were absent and insufficient. There was a few reports about the oral disease of Chinese about six thousands years ago. In the Yellow River Basin,there is a comparatively intact site of the typical matriarchal trible. It existed 6,000 years age and now has become a valuable cultural heritage. That is Banpo Site.In China,Xi'an Banpo Museum is the first museum showing the prehistoric site.There the specimens of the Neolithic man's skulls have been very well preserved.By the samples,we study the prevalence of the oral disease and the social conditions at that time. From this study, a picture of the people's dental caries six thousands years ago could be drawn, which...