本报告的目的是介绍位于布尔戈斯国家人类进化研究中心(CENIEH)的已识别儿童的大型乳牙集合,西班牙。
每年,CENIEH牙科人类学小组的成员负责收集牙齿,并在收集时记录捐赠者的所有相关信息。根据2007年7月3日关于生物医学研究的第14/2007号西班牙法律(BOE-A-2007-12945),保证所有个人的匿名性和机密性。当捐赠者把手伸进牙齿时,他们填写捐赠者信息表,并签署知情同意书。同时,另一个人完成了临时存放牙齿的透明聚乙烯拉链锁袋的数据标签。然后将所有牙齿转移到CENIEH修复实验室,专家对化石遗骸采用相同的协议。
虽然样品还在增长,从2014年的第一次收集活动到目前为止,它包括2977颗牙齿的儿童,他们的牙齿脱落年龄在2到15岁之间。每颗牙齿都与个人及其父母和祖父母的基本信息(性别,date,和出生地,祖先,居住国),以及关于早期生活史的重要数据(怀孕持续时间,母乳喂养,奶瓶喂养)和捐赠者提供的其他相关信息(例如,如果他们是双胞胎,牙齿脱落,或拔牙)。
由于可用的乳牙样本稀缺,RatónPérez系列代表了一个非常有价值的样本,用于广泛的学科,如法医,牙科,和人类学领域等等。
The aim of this report is to present the large deciduous tooth collection of identified children that is housed at the National Research Center on Human Evolution (CENIEH) in Burgos, Spain.
Yearly, members of the Dental Anthropology Group of the CENIEH are in charge of collecting the teeth and registering all the relevant information from the donors at the time of collection. In compliance with Spanish Law 14/2007 of July 3, 2007, on Biomedical Research (BOE-A-2007-12945), all individuals are guaranteed anonymity and confidentiality. When the donor hands in the tooth, they fill out a Donor Information Form and sign the Informed Consent Form. At the same time, another person completes the data label for the transparent polyethylene zip lock bag where the tooth is temporarily stored. All teeth are then transferred to the CENIEH Restoration lab, where the specialists apply the same protocol as for the fossil remains.
Although the sample is still growing, from the first collection campaign in 2014 to date it comprises 2977 teeth of children whose ages of tooth loss are between 2 and 15 years. Each tooth is associated with basic information of the individuals and their parents and grandparents (sex, date, and place of birth, ancestry, country of residence), as well as important data about early life history (pregnancy duration, breastfeeding, bottle-feeding) and other relevant information provided by the donors (such as if they are twins, dental loss, or dental extraction).
Due to the scarcity of deciduous dental samples available, the Ratón Pérez collection represents a highly valuable sample for a wide range of disciplines such as forensic, dental, and anthropological fields among others.