Neanderthal dentists used stone drills to treat cavities nearly 60,000 years ago, ancient molar suggests

Neanderthals had the know-how to identify a tooth infection and the motor skills to drill out the damage, according to a ...

Tooth shows cavemen conducted dental surgery thousands of years before anesthetic

Cavemen conducted dental surgery tens of thousands of years before anesthetics, reveals new research. Neanderthal dentists ...

Oldest-known evidence of dentistry found in Neanderthal tooth, study suggests

Archaeologists have found a hole in a 59,000-year-old tooth, which they say was drilled to treat a painful cavity. The find ...
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Tooth shows cavemen conducted dental surgery before anesthesia

Scientists say a tooth discovered in a Russian cave has provided the oldest evidence of "complex" dental care.
Discover Magazine

59,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Tooth May Reveal the Earliest Known Dental Procedure — and Pain Treatment

Learn how researchers recreated a 59,000-year-old Neanderthal dental procedure and uncovered evidence that ancient humans may ...
La Brújula Verde

59,000 Years Ago, a Neanderthal Underwent a Dental Drilling to Cure an Infection, and then that Knowledge was Lost

A team of researchers has documented what is likely the oldest case of successful dental treatment in history of human ...
The Debrief

59,000-Year-Old Evidence of Stone Drilling Technology Reveals the Ancient Dentistry of Neanderthals

Neanderthals practiced a surprisingly advanced form of dentistry, detecting tooth decay and removing it with stone drills.
Nature

Hallucigenia’s head and the pharyngeal armature of early ecdysozoans

Phylogenetic analysis was conducted using the methods of Smith and Ortega-Hernández 6; in summary, parsimony analysis was performed in TNT 30 under a range of weighting parameters, with Goloboff’s ...