"Dental Calculus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Abnormal concretion or calcified deposit that forms around the teeth or dental prostheses.
| Descriptor ID |
D003728
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C07.793.208.250 C23.300.175.350
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Dental Calculus" by people in Profiles.
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Metagenomic and paleopathological analyses of a historic documented collection explore ancient dental calculus as a diagnostic tool. Sci Rep. 2024 06 26; 14(1):14720.
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Remembering St. Louis individual-structural violence and acute bacterial infections in a historical anatomical collection. Commun Biol. 2022 10 03; 5(1):1050.
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The genomic origins of the Bronze Age Tarim Basin mummies. Nature. 2021 11; 599(7884):256-261.
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Exotic foods reveal contact between South Asia and the Near East during the second millennium BCE. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 01 12; 118(2).
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Functional diversity of microbial ecologies estimated from ancient human coprolites and dental calculus. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2020 11 23; 375(1812):20190586.
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"The dead shall be raised": Multidisciplinary analysis of human skeletons reveals complexity in 19th century immigrant socioeconomic history and identity in New Haven, Connecticut. PLoS One. 2019; 14(9):e0219279.
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Relief food subsistence revealed by microparticle and proteomic analyses of dental calculus from victims of the Great Irish Famine. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 09 24; 116(39):19380-19385.
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Microbial differences between dental plaque and historic dental calculus are related to oral biofilm maturation stage. Microbiome. 2019 07 06; 7(1):102.
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Medieval women's early involvement in manuscript production suggested by lapis lazuli identification in dental calculus. Sci Adv. 2019 01; 5(1):eaau7126.
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The efficacy of whole human genome capture on ancient dental calculus and dentin. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2019 03; 168(3):496-509.