Cavemen conducted dental surgery tens of thousands of years before anesthetics, reveals new research. Neanderthal dentists were using stone drills to treat cavities nearly 60,000 years ago – more than 40,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to the study.

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

Neanderthals used rock drills to treat an infected tooth, according to a study that pushes back the earliest known evidence of dentistry by more than 40,000 years.

A tooth discovered in a Siberian cave bore signs of dental surgery apparently performed with a small stone tool to remove decay and relieve pain.

A Neanderthal tooth discovered in Siberia suggests ancient humans may have performed complex dental procedures long before modern civilisation.

A team of researchers has documented what is likely the oldest case of successful dental treatment in history of human evolution, performed by a Neanderthal who lived in the Chagyrskaya cave, in the Altai region,