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

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

Archaeologists analyzed a Neanderthal molar that seems like it was intentionally drilled, but some experts are skeptical ...

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

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

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

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

"The concept of ‘This hurts, and I’m going to work on it, because if I get this out of here it’s going to feel better ...

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