Consuming hard foods can produce distinctive dental microwear patterns.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple peer-reviewed sources (PNAS, PubMed, MicroWeaR study) showing hard foods cause pitting and tough foods cause scratching on dental surfaces; well-established in paleoanthropology and dental microwear research.
Sources
- Dental microwear (en.wikipedia.org)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6065344/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1509491112 (pnas.org)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19902458/ (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)