A case involving five women in New Jersey challenged their employer's right to sue their employer, but the case was settled out of court in 1928. Individual workers who contract occupational diseases are entitled to claim their staff members under New Jersey's occupational injuries law, which at the time had a two-year statute of limitations. Affected areas of the mandible (lower jawbone) and maxilla (upper jawbone) necrose, causing persistent bleeding of the gums, and (typically) severe deformation due to bone tumors and porosity of the lower jaw over a period of time. It also had an effect on those who were taking patent medicines that contained radium. Radium necrosis, also known as radium jaw, is a historic occupational disease due to ingestion and subsequent accumulation of radium into the bones of radium dial painters. Theodor Blum, a dentist from New York City, made the first recorded mention of the condition in 1924 when he described unique mandibular osteomyelitis in a dial painter, which he dubbed 'radium jaw.' Phossy Jaw is a disorder that is comparable to osteoporotic and osteonecrotic illness that occurs in matchgirls and is caused by excessive phosphorus ingestion and absorption. The condition was the primary motivation for the Radium Girls' legal action against the United States Radium Corporation, which was filed in 1989. There were symptoms in the mouth as a result of using the lips and tongue to maintain the radium-paint paintbrushes suitably formed while painting with radium paint. Martland in 1924 after a large number of female workers from several radium paint companies experienced comparable dental and mandibular pain. The condition was identified as indicative of radium paint ingestion by pathologist Dr.

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