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  "textContent": "Few of us enjoy the dentist – but next time you're in the chair, think about how lucky you are not to have been visiting a Neanderthal tooth doctor. New research on a single tooth from a Russian cave has found that its center is marked with the kind of grooves made by stone tools used as rudimentary drills.\n\nContinue Reading\n\n**Category:** Archaeology, Science\n\n**Tags:** Archeology, Neanderthal, ancient, Russia, Teeth, Tools",
  "title": "Neanderthal dentists used stone drills to fix ancient teeth"
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