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Reply to "hand study revealed bone age two years younger than actual age - concern?"
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[quote=Anonymous]We were told that having a younger bone age is a good thing. They look to see if the growth plates are closed or closing yet because this suggests that your child is almost done growing and whatever height they have achieved is likely to be their permanent adult height. When our daughter was 13 and had no signs of incipient puberty and was wearing a size 8 in children's clothing, they did the hand study and we were all relieved to find that she still had several years worth of growing to do. She was in the fifth percentile for height and weight and we were wondering about growth hormone. They told us that she was nowhere near done growing and was clearly delayed (as both my husband and I had been). She got her period when she was sixteen, grew eight inches between the age of 13 and 16 and is now taller than her sister. The growth plate study is meant to be reassuring and for us it was.[/quote]
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