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

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

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

Researchers have deciphered the diet of an important nomadic people in Eastern European history. By analyzing dental calculus, they have provided the first direct evidence that the diet of the ...

Treating patients who have spent years—sometimes decades—avoiding dental care because of fear, disability, trauma or painful ...

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

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You’re probably brushing your teeth wrong. Luckily, though, you can set everything right in the two minutes it takes to clean your choppers correctly. Adrienne Malcolm, a registered dental hygienist ...