Drill holes proof of prehistoric dentistry

PROVING prehistoric man’s ingenuity and ability to withstand and inflict excruciating pain, researchers have found that dental drilling dates back 9,000 years.

Primitive dentists drilled nearly perfect holes into live but undoubtedly unhappy patients between 5500 BC and 7000 BC, an article in the journal Nature reports.

Researchers carbon-dated at least nine skulls with 11 drill holes found in a Pakistan graveyard.