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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/...563342-30417,00.html
University of Adelaide professor of biological anthropology and comparative anatomy Maciej Henneberg says in his new book, The Hobbit Trap, that a lower left molar had a filling, a claim that threatens to blow out of the water conjecture by the fossil's describers that the Hobbit is 18,000 years old.
Professor Brown said Professor Henneberg's claim was "complete lunacy".
"There is no factual support," Professor Brown said. "The molar tooth has no evidence of dental work of any sort and this can be demonstrated by examination of the tooth ... with photographic evidence, X-rays, CT scans."
Did the Flores Hobbit Have a Root Canal? - Scientific American
Charles Hildebolt, a paleoanthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, has also been working on the Flores material and has obtained his own CT scans. "We think that it is highly unlikely that any type of filling material is in the mandibular left first molar," he said in an e-mail. "The defect in the mandibular left first molar does not have the appearance of a cavity preparation made by a dentist in that the defect is shallow, is nonretentive and is not extended in an apical direction interproximally. There is no indication of tooth decay in any of LB1's teeth."
He adds, "if for some reason, a temporary filling were placed in LB1's mandibular left first molar, we should be able to see some indication of it in the CT images, but we cannot--all that we can see is a defect that resembles other defects on LB1's teeth where the enamel has worn away and the dentine is exposed."
Edited by molbiogirl, : sciam link