Encino Smile Design

Dentistry - a profession that has been around for a while.

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, Russian Academy of Sciences (Kunstkame...