Implant success is complicated by challenges such as delayed bone healing and age-related bone loss in older individuals and varying bone stiffness.

Floating-Harbor syndrome (FHS), also known as Pelletier-Leisti syndrome, typically causes physical characteristics like short stature, delayed bone age, a distinctive triangular facial structure ...

Of those who had bone age X-rays performed, none had delayed bone age and three had advanced bone age. Whole-body minus head BMD z scores were low for 30% of participants, between 0 and –2 in 59 ...

At birth, they all had low growth characteristics, such as a small head circumference, a delayed bone age, and dysmorphic facial traits. The first uncle died when he was nine years old, and the ...

Patients with epidermolysis bullosa are at risk for delayed puberty, which can have a significant impact on bone mineral density, according to a study, and this is especially true of those with ...

“We found that bone age delay (a key metric of glucocorticoid toxicity) was once again associated with increased spine fracture burden in Duchenne muscular dystrophy,” the authors concluded.

Approximately half of women and up to one in four men over the age of 50 will break a bone in her or his remaining lifetime due to osteoporosis, according to The Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.

(BPT) – Most people have heard of osteoporosis, but many people don’t put much thought into their own bone health. However, in the United States, 54 million people age 50 and over eithe… ...