The analysis showed that the tooth was filled with beeswax, likely to alleviate the pain of chewing on a cracked tooth, providing what could be the earliest known direct evidence of a therapeutic dental filling.

UNESCO: Basic Sciences

The tooth is from a jawbone that was found in a cave near the village of Lonche, Slovenia and is considered one of the most ancient evidence of pre-historic dentistry and the earliest known direct example of therapeutic-palliative dental filling so far.

UNESCO: Basic Sciences

There is a small queue in the waiting room as she and her dental nurse inside the surgery give one of her young patients a filling.

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