Japanese Dentition: Anthropology And History

Eisaku Kanazawa was born in 1947, and earned a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1980 from Keio University, Tokyo. He is an author of many papers and books, and a pioneer of mini-moire 3D photography for small substructures of the tooth crown. In particular, Kanazawa et al.'s (1990) paper is internationally very famous. Recently, he is active also in studies on cultural phenomena relating to teeth of the Edo period (1603–1867) in Japan. Hiroyuki Yamada was born in 1949, and completed a Doctor of Dental Medicine degree in 1978 under the late Professor Takuro Sakai of Aichi-Gakuin University, Nagoya. Yamada has written many papers and books on dental anthropology. Among others, a series of papers on third molar agenesis is greatly appreciated. Yamada et al.'s (2004) paper made a strong impact upon the Japanese society of anthropology of those days.