Need a filling? Stone Age dentists knew their beeswax

By Nicky Phillips
Updated September 20 2012 - 3:11pm, first published 7:00am
Age-old teeth ... the actual dental filling within the yellow line.
Age-old teeth ... the actual dental filling within the yellow line.

AUSTRALIAN scientists have helped date what may be the world's oldest dental filling – in a tooth crowned with beeswax in a 6500-year-old human jaw.

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