You Know the Drill

Ouch. From LiveScience:

If you dread going to the dentist, be thankful you didn't live in the Stone Age.

Roughly 8,000 years before Novocaine and some 7,300 years before they could even swig whiskey to dull the pain, prehistoric patients were having holes drilled into their teeth with drill bits carved from stone.

Don't laugh; the dental plan I had at Micro Publishing wasn't too far removed from this.