I'd definatly say ouch!!

[Sheryl]

Pakistan

Ouch! The first successful trips to the dentist just got pushed back another four millennia, thanks to an analysis of 300 molars from the Neolithic village of Mergarh in the Indus River Valley. Holes in some of the samples indicate that at least nine adults survived flint-drilling dental procedures some time around 7000 B.C. Until now, the earliest-known evidence for tooth drilling came from a northern European molar dated to 3000 B.C.

http://www.archaeology.org/0607/news/world.html

I just wonder if they used a painkiller. :-3

[Casey Morgan]

Oh undoubtedly. They just didn't have to worry about the co-pay. It's amazing how science keeps discovering that things are older than we thought, isn't it?