title: Tooth size associations of three morphologic dental traits in a melanesian population.
abstract: The tooth size associations of incisor shoveling, Carabelli's cusp, and mandibular molar groove pattern were determined for a technologically primitive Melanesian population. Their significance to previously postulated adaptive mechanisms for the morphologic traits is evaluated, as is a possible mode of inheritance for the traits.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002508:Cephalometry; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007180:Incisor / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008542:Melanesia; D008875:Middle Aged; D009811:Odontometry; D012737:Sex Factors; D014071:Tooth Abnormalities / Q000473:pathology*