The First Dentist Was a Neanderthal
Episode 19 min 18s

The First Dentist Was a Neanderthal

Sixty thousand years before modern dentistry, a Neanderthal endured a 35-minute stone-tool drilling procedure — no anesthesia — and survived. Caroline Knight explains what a 59,000-year-old infected molar reveals about prehistoric medicine.

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