Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

A Neanderthal tooth shows clear signs of human intervention to treat bacterial decay, showing that the earliest dentistry ...

A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern ...

About 59,000 years ago, a Neanderthal suffered from an awful toothache caused by a deep cavity in one of the molars on the ...

59,000 years ago in what’s now southwestern Siberia, a Neanderthal had a toothache. It must have been a doozy because they ...

American Association of Endodontists reports that only 27% of U.S. adults know they have 30 minutes to save a knocked-out ...

Molar found in Siberia features deep hole that appears to show earliest known evidence of dental treatment ...

Now, new research published in the journal PLOS One indicates that they were capable of complex dental interventions, which ...

An ice pack on a swollen ankle can feel like the most obvious cure in the world. It dulls pain, reduces swelling, and has ...

A 59,000-year-old Neandertal molar unearthed in Siberia was drilled with a stone tool – the earliest evidence of primitive ...