9,000 years ago, someone drilled into a living tooth using a bow drill with a stone tip.

Pain-relieving injections have been around for only about 120 years. Yet people have been suffering from toothaches for hundreds of thousands of years. How did everyone else cope? In this video: a Neanderthal with a toothpick, the oldest resin filling, Stone Age dentists from Pakistan, the Babylonian "tooth worm," a mouse for toothache relief prescribed by Pliny, a Roman who cleaned his teeth with urine, Etruscan gold teeth, Paris’s most famous tooth-puller, "Waterloo teeth," George Washington’s dentures, and the man who finally conquered pain. #history #ancienthumans #dentist #top