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2,500-Year-Old Jaw Surgery in Siberia Reveals Iron Age Prosthetic Technique
High in the frozen mountains of the Altai, where winds carve across the Ukok Plateau, a woman survived what should have been a fatal injury. Two and a half millennia later, modern CT imaging has revealed how. Researchers from Novosibirsk State University have identified what may be the earliest documented case of temporomandibular joint (TMJ)…