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 ...
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Neanderthals were performing dental surgery nearly 60,000 years ago – and it actually worked

Going to the dentist has never been fun, but imagine how rough it must have been in the era before anaesthetics, handwashing, ...

59,000-year-old tooth offers a rare glimpse into how Neanderthals handled a medical problem

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

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 ...
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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 ...
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Neanderthals were dentists, treated teeth: 59,000-year-old tooth reveals

The tooth was unearthed from Chagyrskaya Cave in Siberia and pushes back the record of primitive dentistry by more than ...

A Neanderthal with a cavity opened wide for a stone drill

Neanderthals used rock drills to treat an infected tooth, according to a study that pushes back the earliest known evidence ...
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What You Need to Know About Your Tooth Pulp

If you were to crack open a tooth, you’d find that it isn’t solid all the way through. Each of your teeth has a jelly-like core called tooth pulp or dental pulp. Your tooth pulp is protected by the ...