We now know that Neanderthals both had the knowledge to identify a tooth infection and the fine motor skills to drill out the damage.

The molar showed that the Neanderthal who underwent the dental procedure was an adult, though the researchers do not know the ...

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

A hole found in a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal tooth was likely made by a stone drill, making the discovery the oldest ...

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

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

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