[Use of stomatological indexes in biology].

OBJECTIVE: Introduction: The issue of the interdisciplinary use of knowledge has always been topical. Knowledge obtained in one area of science can be effective in solving problems of another discipline. The aim of the work is to show the possibility of using indicators of the carious process as markers of biology. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: The material based on anthropological collections of Poltava Museum of Local History and Poltava National Pedagogical University of V.G. Korolenko for the disease of dental caries. The method was a comparative analysis of caries in dentistry and indicators of variability in biology. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: Medical indicators taken for a period of a century or more can be represented as indicators of the variability of the human population (for example, the reaction rates in biology). The dynamics of such a representation indicates changes in the range of reaction rates in different environmental conditions. Comparing data from historical sources on living conditions of the population, one can judge the strength of the response of the individual and the population as a whole to certain environmental factors. Interpolation of indicators in the future may indicate a change in the rate of response to the currently acting stimulus in the future.