How to solve the dental problems in the Neolithic? According to Roberto Macchiarelli, French anthropologist at the University of Poitiers, with much greater accuracy of what one might think.This is evidenced by the discovery in Pakistan of a series of human teeth from 7,500 to 9,000 years, with drilling in eleven molars.
Macchiarelli's team has found that such drills were fabricated with a tip of the flint quite hard as enamel to drill in less than a minute before it is not yet known if the purpose of drilling was therapeutic or otherwise, if the holes were filled with some filling, and if patients took something to endure the pain.
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