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[quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry, OP.  I would definitely seek out a second consultation with a different endo.  She does not sound like she answered all of your questions and her bedside manner seems like it might not have been great.

I found this on the web:

"[b]Predicting growth can be a little tricky. While it is true that once a growth plate has fused there will be no lengthening of that bone, not all the growth plates in the body fuse at the same time. [/b]

[b]Some bones, like the small bones of the wrist and feet, might fuse while other bones in the body still have open growth plates. Height will be determined primarily by the growth in the bones of the legs and the spine at this time.

It is quite possible that the small bones in the wrist have closed while the growth plates in the legs are still open, and that would allow for continued increases in height. You wouldn't know for sure unless you looked at an X-ray of the legs.[/b]

That said, hand and wrist X-rays are a standard use as a predictor of skeletal maturity in children, so it may be that your son has finished growing. The growth plates in the knees generally close at about the same time as the ones in the wrist.

The usual progression of fusion of growth plates is elbow first, then foot and ankle, then hand and wrist, then knee, then hip and pelvis, and last the shoulder and clavicle. It is possible that he has finished.

However, 14 would be quite early for a boy to stop growing unless he has gone through puberty early. Most boys don't stop growing until about age 17."

It's very possible your kid has open growth plates elsewhere.  We grow late in my family. My sons really didn't have much of a growth spurt until after age 16. My older son left for college this Fall just as he turned 19 and has grown an inch in that time. I thought he was done. My brother grew 2 inches in college.  Fwiw, my older son 'looked' like he was done growing. He was shaving, looked like a man, etc.

My 16-year old is baby faced, no facial hair and he seems to have more growing. No idea about his growth plates at this point, but he was tiny at age 14 and jus this year --16--grew some.[/quote]

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