The 'unusual' object was made with great craftsmanship and would likely have significantly improved the patient's quality of life.
Archaeologists have discovered a 'unique' medical prosthetic implant lodged in the skull of an 18th-century skeleton.The artificial body part, described in a study published this month in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, was made for a man with a cleft palate, a congenital defect characterized by a split in the roof of the mouth. The skeleton in question is that of an individual who died at the age of 50 more than two centuries ago and was buried in the crypts of the St.
'This procedure made the everyday life of this person much easier, improving its quality,' Marta Kurek, another author of the study with the Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection at the University of Lodz, Poland, told Newsweek.'It prevented the passage of food from the oral cavity to the nasal cavity, decreased the risk of infection within the nasopharynx , facilitated breathing, and improved speech,' Kurek said.
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