Research Article

Severe Enamel Defects in Wild Japanese Macaques

Table 2

Enamel hypoplasia prevalence for all permanent teeth (n = 810) from 48 individuals, split by defect type.

Yakushima IslandOther locations

Total observable teeth330638
Total teeth with EH12434
% teeth with EH37.65.3
LEH4427
Localized127
Pitting00
PFEH680
% teeth with PFEH20.60.0
Not observable7476
Observable but no EH206604

Other locations combine figures for Chiba and Koshima samples. EH, enamel hypoplasia; LEH, linear enamel hypoplasia; localized, localized enamel hypoplasia; pitting, pitting enamel hypoplasia; PFEH, plane-form enamel hypoplasia.