06/03/2026
Imagine a world before dentists… yet still somehow with dentistry. 🦷✨
A 59,000-year-old Neanderthal tooth shows signs of intentional drilling to treat a painful cavity, rewriting what we know about early medical care and pushing the origins of dentistry tens of thousands of years further back. 🪨🧠
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Scientists dug up a Paleolithic tooth that shows signs that these hominins may have been capable of executing a precise dental procedure.