Leaving aside my personal experience with dentists and removing X-rays, drills and drills, saliva extractors, hooks, screws, needles... and other tools, archaeological evidence dates the first visits to the dentist more than 8,000 years ago in civilization of the Indus Valley. Although several centuries would have to pass to find written evidence related to the treatment of dental diseases, in different cultures and places (Mesopotamia, China, India, Greece...) a worm was described that attacked the teeth by drilling them - today we call this "worm" cavities-. The first remedy for tooth decay was found in a 6,500-year-old mandible discovered in a cave in Trieste, Italy, in which one of its canines had beeswax applied to fill a hole. And it seems that centuries later the occupants of those lands continued to maintain dental art, because it is considered that the Etruscans (8th century BC) were authentic artists carving teeth and dentures with bone.
Special mention deserves Hesi-Re , whom we could consider the first dentist in history. Although he was not the first to take care of these tasks, since he was the doctor of pharaoh Djoser "only" 4,600 years ago, he was the first to call himself a " tooth doctor ”. Among the pharaonic treatments for dental reconstruction appear the bridges with which loose pieces were joined with the rest of the teeth by means of gold or silver wires. Neither did those who a few years ago, following a stupid fashion, embedded precious stones in their teeth or even replaced them with pieces of gold, the Mayan civilization already did it centuries ago by drilling the teeth with a drill that they rotated with a bow.
Sources:The Inventions of the Ancients