Teeth, pain and Ukraine
It began with a simple root canal. As Economist correspondent Wendell Steavenson reported on the war in Ukraine her teeth were locked in their own war– a struggle with pain that defied medical explanation. Her attempt to discover its cause led her to visit 48 dentists in seven countries.
On The Weekend Intelligence, Wendell explores how war rewrites the body's pain signals—and why an entire nation may be suffering in ways medicine is only starting to understand.
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