The First Dentists: How Humans Drilled Teeth 9,000 Years Ago

Long before the advent of modern dental clinics, anesthesia, or sterile instruments, humans were already performing complex dental procedures. Archaeological discoveries from Mehrgarh, a Neolithic site located in present-day Balochistan, Pakistan, have revealed that early humans practiced teeth drilling as early as 7000 BCE — making it the earliest known evidence of dentistry in human history.
















