Oldest Dentistry Found in 14,000-Year-Old Tooth

SHARE:

Oldest Dentistry Found in 14,000-Year-Old Tooth

An infected tooth partially cleaned with flint tools represents the oldest known dentistry, says a new international study on a 14,000-year-old molar.

The find represents the oldest archaeological example of an operative manual intervention on a pathological condition, according to researchers led by Stefano Benazzi, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Bologna.

“It predates any undisputed evidence of dental and cranial surgery, currently represented by dental drillings and cranial trephinations dating back to the Mesolithic-Neolithic period, about 9,000-7,000 years ago, “ Benazzi said.

The patient was a young man, about 25 years old, living in northern Italy.

His well-preserved skeleton was found in 1988 in the Veneto Dolomitesnear Belluno, in a rock shelter burial named Ripari Villabruna.

The find was directly dated between 13,820 and 14,160 years old. It's now kept at the University of Ferrara for further studies.

“The treatment went unnoticed for all these years. The cavity was described as a simple carious lesion,” Benazzi said.

Detailing their finding in the journal Scientific Reports, Benazzi and colleagues show that forms of dental treatment were already adopted in the Late Upper Palaeolithic.

At that time, toothpicks probably made of bone and wood were used to remove food particles between teeth.

However, until now, no evidence had been found to associate Palaeolithic toothpicking with tooth decay.

Beewax dental filling was discovered in a 6,500 year old human tooth from Slovenia, while dental drilling, likely to remove decayed tissue, was discovered in 9,000-year-old molars from a Neolithic graveyard in Pakistan.

Benazzi and colleagues analyzed the lower right third molar of the Villabruna specimen. They noticed the tooth retains a large occlusal cavity with four cavities.

Source: News Discovery

Related:

COMMENTS

BLOGGER: 1
  1. orthodontic band pusher ARTMAN instruments welcome you to our website and look forward a rich browsing. We are leading surgical instruments providers all over USA, Canada and Europe.Currently our focus is on dentists, orthodontists, Implantologists and general surgeons.

    ReplyDelete

Name

Activism,1307,Art,791,BLM,22,Consciousness,1545,CoVid-19,154,Cures,227,Do it Yourself,112,Documentaries,72,Environment,1478,Fiction,2,Health,765,History,464,Human Intelligence,554,Inspirations,2,Inspiring Stories,4179,Justice,536,Mental Health,16,News,1411,Nutrition,218,Philosophy,309,Photography,1590,Quantum Physics,29,Quizzes & Tests,145,Quotes,113,Relationships,781,Science,1145,Self Improvement,838,Spirituality,248,Sustainability,246,Technology,477,Truth,755,
ltr
item
Thinking Humanity: Oldest Dentistry Found in 14,000-Year-Old Tooth
Oldest Dentistry Found in 14,000-Year-Old Tooth
An infected tooth partially cleaned with flint tools represents the oldest known dentistry, says a new international study on a 14,000-year-old molar.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM3tadJ98YyPIM1uf-QQpHhFGPYnOymB6uThBSOXvRtjGjGL_cHhnaRoINCICI9_SSimSxCWNPWoOUA1MtEaVuoYoSZ2amr5EdvnhHvp2HN-uns1o42z_0ykTWXyXQ188DqteaAYA_eFu2/s1600/Oldest+Dentistry+Found+in+14%252C000-Year-Old+Tooth.jpg
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM3tadJ98YyPIM1uf-QQpHhFGPYnOymB6uThBSOXvRtjGjGL_cHhnaRoINCICI9_SSimSxCWNPWoOUA1MtEaVuoYoSZ2amr5EdvnhHvp2HN-uns1o42z_0ykTWXyXQ188DqteaAYA_eFu2/s72-c/Oldest+Dentistry+Found+in+14%252C000-Year-Old+Tooth.jpg
Thinking Humanity
https://www.thinkinghumanity.com/2015/07/oldest-dentistry-found-in-14000-year-old-tooth.html
https://www.thinkinghumanity.com/
https://www.thinkinghumanity.com/
https://www.thinkinghumanity.com/2015/07/oldest-dentistry-found-in-14000-year-old-tooth.html
true
7064777598104498166
UTF-8
Loaded All Posts Not found any posts VIEW ALL Readmore Reply Cancel reply Delete By Home PAGES POSTS View All RECOMMENDED FOR YOU LABEL ARCHIVE SEARCH ALL POSTS Not found any post match with your request Back Home Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat January February March April May June July August September October November December Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec just now 1 minute ago $$1$$ minutes ago 1 hour ago $$1$$ hours ago Yesterday $$1$$ days ago $$1$$ weeks ago more than 5 weeks ago Followers Follow THIS PREMIUM CONTENT IS LOCKED STEP 1: Share to a social network STEP 2: Click the link on your social network Copy All Code Select All Code All codes were copied to your clipboard Can not copy the codes / texts, please press [CTRL]+[C] (or CMD+C with Mac) to copy