The Radium Girls actually believed they were getting ... she was actually suffering from a condition called “radium jaw.” Her entire lower jawbone had become so brittle that her doctor removed ...

The radium girls were given no protection of any kind ... surgery to remove a fast-growing abscess he’d found on her jaw.

The new musical, a female-driven, horror-laced dark comedy inspired by the stories and spirits of the incredible young women who worked the factory line at the United States Radium Corporation in ...

Years later, the “radium girls,” as they became known ... and eventually, her lower jaw had to be surgically removed. But when she died soon afterward, doctors said it was because of syphilis.

When the girls mixed the paint, radium dust got everywhere ... girls at both factories began to feel weak and have tooth and jaw pain. Doctors and dentists weren’t able to diagnose the problem ...

The film will include testimonies from the radium girls' children ... When consumed at the mouth, radium deteriorates the jaw, causing skin and bone to malform and decay. The disease, called ...

At a time when “The Wonders of Radium” (discovered ... to bleed and then with their jaw bones literally dissolving — it took the death of one of the girls to convince at least two of them ...