Gnarly 2,500-year-old Siberian mummy is earliest case of complex jaw surgery and prosthetics

The woman had suffered a head injury that had destroyed her right jaw joint, torn ligaments and thrown her jaw out of ...

Iron Age Surgeons Fixed a Woman’s Shattered Jaw With Primitive Prosthetic—and She Survived

Researchers revisited a 2,500-year-old mummified skull, uncovering signs of an extreme surgical procedure—which the ancient woman survived.
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2,500-year-old 'primitive prosthetic' found on jaw of mummified Scythian woman who survived complex jaw surgery

Researchers used CT scans to peer inside a partially mummified skull and discovered the woman survived jaw surgery 2,500 years ago.