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Neanderthals may have drilled out a cavity

Neanderthal dentists used stone drills to treat cavities nearly 60,000 years ago, ancient molar suggests

Neanderthals had the know-how to identify a tooth infection and the motor skills to drill out the damage, according to a study published May 13, 2026, in the open-access journal PLOS One by Alisa Zubova of Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography,

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Neanderthals may have drilled out a cavity 59,000 years ago

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Neanderthals used stone drills to treat cavities 59,000 years ago, tooth suggests

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59,000-year-old tooth offers a rare glimpse into how Neanderthals handled a medical problem

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

Tooth from Siberian cave reveals Neanderthal dental surgery

About 59,000 years ago, a Neanderthal suffered from an awful toothache caused by a deep cavity in one of the molars on the lower jaw. That tooth has now been discovered inside a Siberian cave, ...

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Study Reveals Neanderthals Performed Dental Surgery Thousands Of Years Before Modern Medicine

New research has revealed that early human relatives were carrying out dental procedures long before modern tools and ...

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