Sharma J C
Am J Phys Anthropol. 1983 Aug;61(4):495-505. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.1330610412.
Dental features such as size, shape, cusp number and groove pattern, deflecting wrinkle, protostylid, form and size of dental arch and occlusion pattern, as well as crown diameters of maxillary and mandibular dentition of the Tibetan immigrants in India are described. Sex differences in various measurements are also noted. Overall reduction in size, presence of hypodontia of the third molar, and absence of Carabelli's trait are a distinct progressive/evolutionary trend in the Tibetan dentition, while presence of a shovel-shaped lingual surface of central and lateral incisors is a retrogressive/primitive condition. In some of the dental features Tibetans resemble Caucasoid and modern populations, in certain others they resemble other Mongoloid populations, and in still other features they resemble aboriginal populations and fossil hominids.
本文描述了印度藏族移民的牙齿特征，如大小、形状、尖牙数量和沟纹模式、偏斜皱纹、原尖、牙弓的形态和大小以及咬合模式，以及上颌和下颌牙列的冠径。还记录了各种测量中的性别差异。牙齿尺寸总体减小、第三磨牙先天性缺牙以及无卡氏特征是藏族牙列中明显的渐进/进化趋势，而中切牙和侧切牙舌面呈铲形则是一种退行/原始状态。在某些牙齿特征上，藏族人与高加索人和现代人群相似，在另一些特征上，他们与其他蒙古人种人群相似，在其他一些特征上，他们与原住民和化石原始人相似。
