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 shows cavemen conducted dental surgery thousands of years before anesthetic

Cavemen conducted dental surgery tens of thousands of years before anesthetics, reveals new research. Neanderthal dentists ...

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

Scientists dug up a Paleolithic tooth that shows signs that these hominins may have been capable of executing a precise ...
ZME Science

A Neanderthal with a Toothache May Have Invented Dentistry 59,000 Years Ago

A new study suggests that about 59,000 years ago, someone used a small stone tool to drill into a badly decayed tooth, remove ...
IEEE

Advanced Teeth Instance Segmentation Using Contextual Spatial Attention and Deeper Mask Head

Abstract: Dental image analysis has advanced significantly with deep learning, yet achieving accurate teeth segmentation remains challenging, particularly with complex structures like adjacent or ...