As someone who has experienced serious tooth infection and internal pressure out of reach of dentistry, im not too surprised. It took everything I had even with tons of benzocaine to not go medieval on my face with my toolbox.

If I was living in the stone age I probably would of tried to bust the tooth out with a rock and stick if nobody else had any solutions.

Sure, but they didn't bust the tooth out with a rock and stick.

They drilled cavities. They did dentistry, with dentistry tools.

Neanderthals practiced dentistry 59,000 years ago.

Everything we know about Neanderthals seems to be just the tip of the iceberg given that. Not long ago, we thought Homo Sapiens were obviously more intelligent, it's in the name! (That, and obviously there's more of them in our DNA, so...)

We might need to rethink that.