Really. That's a fact?
Better tell that "fact" to the University of Zurich. In 2013, anatomists and paleopathologist researchers there conducted a systematic review of more than 3,000 Egyptian mummies, most between 3,500 to 2,000 years old, and found that ancient Egyptians suffered from periodontal diseases, abscesses and cavities. 18 percent of all mummies surveyed exhibited dental diseases.
Similarly, the University of Western Ontario looked at a 2100 year old mummy with CT scan and found that he had numerous abscesses and cavities. Better tell them as well.
There is evidence of dental cavities all the way back to Solvenia 6,500 years ago, where they used beeswax to fill dental cavities.
The truth of the matter is that the evidence shows that dental problems were common in our ancestors and dentistry is at least as old as writing as a human activity. Probably older.
The Indus valley civilisations had developed dentistry (tooth drills, picks, pliers and scrapers) all the way back to 7000 BC. The Sumerians definitely had highly developed dental practices by around 4000 BC, as did the Mayans, Inca and Aztecs. So did the Egyptians - one of the earliest pieces of papyrus known is a 5000 year old medical text, in which 11 of the 48 remedies are for dental problems - filling teeth, reducing toothache, oral antiseptic and fixing loose teeth.
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