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

The discovery edges back the foundation of dentistry by at least 40,000 years ...

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

Scientists dug up a Paleolithic tooth that shows signs that these hominins may have been capable of executing a precise ...

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

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

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

A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern ...

A 59,000-year-old Neandertal molar unearthed in Siberia was drilled with a stone tool – the earliest evidence of primitive ...

Now, new research published in the journal PLOS One indicates that they were capable of complex dental interventions, which ...

This means that the patient not only survived the procedure but then went on to chew enough food over the course of time to ...