Objectives Dental caries is often perceived as a modern human disease. However, their presence is documented in many early human groups, various non-human primates and, increasingly, our hominin ancestors and relatives. In this study we describe an antemortem lesion on the root of a Paranthropus robustus third molar from Drimolen, South Africa, which likely represents another example of caries in fossil hominins.

中文翻译：

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Drimolen的拟南芥第二磨牙上的根龋

目的龋齿通常被认为是现代人类疾病。但是，在许多早期人类群体，各种非人类灵长类动物以及我们的人类祖先和亲戚中，都有它们的存在。在这项研究中，我们描述了南非Drimolen的强壮副对虾第三磨牙根部的前尸体病变，这很可能代表了人类化石中龋齿的另一个例子。