The disease was the main reason for litigation against the United States Radium Corporation by the so-called Radium Girls.
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The symptoms are necrosis of the mandible (lower jawbone) and the maxilla (upper jaw) as well as constant bleeding of the gums and (usually) after some time, severe distortion due to bone tumours and porosity of the lower jaw.
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