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Forms are available for applications from students, faculty, and other qualified professionals to study the collection.
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The collection consists only of human cranial material. Specimens may be represented by skulls, crania or mandibles.
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There are approximately 1,400 specimens in the collection.
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The collection has good-sized samples for the stages of growth, from in utero to old age. Broad age categories based on dental eruption patterns are as follows: there are approximately 50 specimens in the fetal/newborn age category (no teeth erupted), 7 specimens in the 1 to 17 month age category (no deciduous molars erupted), 185 specimens in the 18 month to 5 year age category (dM1 erupting, to dM1, dM2 fully erupted), 155 specimens in the 6 to 11 year category (M1 erupting to M2 just erupting), 120 specimens in the 12 to 18 year category (M2 erupted/M3 erupting to fully erupted), 900 adult specimens (adult dentition fully erupted/last molar worn) and 25 specimens in the old age category (edentulous).
Dental radiographs are available for a subset of the collection.
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The following areas of origin are represented in the collection: Mexico (n = 201), India (n = 24), Europe (n = 23), Peru (n = 10), Asia (n = 6), Australia/New Zealand (n = 7).
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Loans are permitted only for special circumstances. See Collection Policies.
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