A Neanderthal tooth shows clear signs of human intervention to treat bacterial decay, showing that the earliest dentistry ...
Cavemen conducted dental surgery tens of thousands of years before anesthetics, reveals new research. Neanderthal dentists ...
Neanderthals used rock drills to treat an infected tooth, according to a study that pushes back the earliest known evidence ...
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Neanderthals drilled out a cavity 59,000 years ago — and the patient survived
Roughly 59,000 years ago, deep inside a limestone cave in what is now the Altai Mountains of Siberia, a Neanderthal sat with ...
Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.
Archaeologists have found a hole in a 59,000-year-old tooth, which they say was drilled to treat a painful cavity. The find ...
Scientists say a tooth discovered in a Russian cave has provided the oldest evidence of "complex" dental care.
Molar found in Siberia features deep hole that appears to show earliest known evidence of dental treatment ...
Neanderthals had the know-how to identify a tooth infection and the motor skills to drill out the damage, according to a ...
The 59,000-year-old tooth was found at Chagyrskaya Cavel; Molar shows evidence of surgery to treat a deep cavity.
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