In this era of history there was no medicine or specialization and there was a prevalent superstition that if you were suffering, you had to make sacrifices and offerings to the priests so that they could cure you.
The first evidence for the history of dentistry goes back to the year 7000 BC in the Indus Valley Civilization.
We received a text dating back to the year 5000 BC from the Sumerian civilization describing the term “tooth worm”, so they believed that the teeth contained a worm and this worm was the cause of pain.