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🗓️ 8 April 2025
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In the early 1900s, a young woman gets a coveted job at a clock factory. But her work is interrupted when she feels terrible pain in her mouth. Soon, her whole jaw is rotting away. It’s up to her dentist to try and stop it. But his misguided moral judgements about the young woman’s life send him in the completely wrong direction.
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0:11.0 | In May 1922, a dentist leaned his patient back in an exam chair. The dentist had been treating |
0:21.9 | this 24-year-old woman for the last seven months, and in that time, she'd lost almost all of her |
0:27.4 | teeth. But the dentist hadn't been able to figure out why. That day, when the woman opened her |
0:32.8 | mouth, she winced and pointed at her lower jaw, as if to say that's what hurts the most. |
0:38.6 | So the dentist used his fingers to gently feel around her jawbone, and as he did, he heard a |
0:45.1 | cracking sound. The woman cried out in agony, and the dentist wasn't sure what had even just |
0:50.6 | happened. So he reached inside of her mouth with his fingers and felt her jaw |
0:55.0 | from the inside. And to his horror, he found a piece of the woman's lower jaw had literally |
1:01.2 | broken off. He picked up the bone and just pulled it out of her mouth, and then the dentist |
1:07.3 | just sat there, frozen in shock, staring at this chunk of his patient's face in his hands. |
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1:22.3 | I'm Peter Frankopan. |
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