Neanderthals may have practiced a surprisingly advanced form of dental care tens of thousands of years earlier than previously known. A drilled molar from Siberia suggests they could recognize painful ...

A 56-year-old Haitian man being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in Arizona died from complications from an untreated tooth infection, a medical examiner's report released ...

We now know that Neanderthals both had the knowledge to identify a tooth infection and the fine motor skills to drill out the ...

The prehistoric hominins “apparently were very adept at what we would consider invasive medicine,” said the anthropologist ...

Archaeologists have found a hole in a 59,000-year-old tooth, which they say was drilled to treat a painful cavity. The find ...

A molar unearthed from a cave in southern Siberia has revealed Neanderthals carried out dental drilling nearly 60,000 years ...

A 60,000-year-old Neanderthal tooth left behind in a cave in modern-day Russia contains a deep hole that cannot be explained ...

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

Russian archaeologists have discovered evidence of a sophisticated dental procedure that took place nearly 60,000 years ago.

Neanderthals used rock drills to treat an infected tooth, according to a study that pushes back the earliest known evidence ...

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