Abstract
Dental topographic analysis has proved a valuable tool for quantifying dental morphology. Established workflows often use proprietary software for pre-processing dental surfaces, rendering the method expensive and inaccessible to many. This study explores the use of freeware pre-processing alternatives. We tested 4 decimation tools and 13 smoothing tools across 7 different freeware packages. Surfaces generated via proprietary software could not be replicated, but it was possible to obtain statistically similar measurements using freeware. Based on this investigation, we propose a freeware workflow for researchers to conduct dental topographic analysis, with the expectation that their results will be comparable to that obtained through proprietary methods.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 143-153 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | American Journal of Biological Anthropology |
| Volume | 182 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 26 Jul 2023 |