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Oldest tooth filling was made by an Ice Age dentist in Italy

Brian Owens · April 7, 2017 ·

Scared of the dentist? Be glad you don’t live in the Ice Age. A pair of 13,000-year-old front teeth found in Italy contain the earliest known use of fillings – made out of bitumen. The teeth, two upper central incisors belonging to one person, were discovered at the Riparo Fredian site near Lucca in northern […]

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