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Tooth shows cavemen conducted dental surgery before anesthesia

Cavemen conducted dental surgery tens of thousands of years before anaesthetic, reveals new research. Neanderthal dental surgery involved using stone drills to treat cavities nearly 60,000 years ago — ...
New York Post

Tooth shows cavemen conducted dental surgery thousands of years before anesthetic

Cavemen conducted dental surgery tens of thousands of years before anesthetics, reveals new research. Neanderthal dentists were using stone drills to treat cavities nearly 60,000 years ago – more than ...
CNN

Rare ‘tooth-in-eye’ surgery restores man’s vision after two decades

When Brent Chapman was 13, he took ibuprofen during a Christmas basketball game. It was a drug he had taken before, but what happened next was anything but routine: He had a severe reaction that ...
The Daily Dot

‘I was on life support for seven days’: Woman gets tooth pulled. Then she has to have open-heart surgery

A woman is sending a PSA about dental care after an infected tooth landed her on life support for a week. Featured Video In a TikTok with over 691,000 views, content creator @thefinemethod shares her ...
Nature

Utility of lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio and pretreatment tooth extraction in intra-arterial chemoradiotherapy for oral cancer to prevent osteoradionecrosis of the jaw

The purpose of this study was to identify specific pre-treatment predictors for osteonecrosis of the jaw (ORN) among patients treated with superselective intra-arterial chemoradiotherapy (SSIACRT) for ...
UPI

Clinical trial suggests opioids unnecessary after wisdom tooth surgery

Getting your wisdom teeth pulled? You don't need opioids to deal with the pain of the extraction, a new study says. A combination of ibuprofen and acetaminophen provided better pain relief than ...