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    Radium jaw, or radium necrosis, is a historic occupational disease brought on by the ingestion and subsequent absorption of radium into the bones of radium...
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    gotten sick from radium in his hands, not the jaw, but the circumstances of his death helped the Radium Girls in court. The Radium Dial Company was established...
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    Radium dials are watch, clock and other instrument dials painted with luminous paint containing radium-226 to produce radioluminescence. Radium dials...
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    use of oral bisphosphonates. Industrial injury Osteonecrosis of the jaw Radium jaw Hughes, J. P; Baron, R; Buckland, D. H; Cooke, M. A; Craig, J. D; Duffield...
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  • Radium girl may refer to: The Radium Girls, female workers who painted glowing radium watch dials in the 1920s and suffered from radium jaw and death...
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  • dials powered by radium radioactivity until 1978. Radium Girls Radium jaw Radioluminescence Moore, Kate (2017) [2016]. "6". The Radium Girls. Naperville...
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  • medical literature of the term “radium jaw” that arose from a case he treated that is described in the book The Radium Girls (2016). Theodor Blum was born...
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  • brought about while licking the brushes, resulted in a condition called radium jaw (radium necrosis), a painful swelling and porosity of the upper and lower...
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    Undark (category Radium)
    radium contained within the product. The product was the direct cause of radium jaw in the dial painters. Undark was also available as a kit for general consumer...
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    anemia, bone fractures, sarcomas, and necrosis of the jaw, a condition now known as radium jaw. Many of these women died young. The documentary interviews...
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