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The episode discusses a Neanderthal's experience with an ancient dental procedure and what it reveals about prehistoric medicine.

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. The post The First Dentist Was a Neanderthal appeared first on StarQuest Media .

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