bones

List 5 common bone diseases.

• Osteoporosis
• Fracture
• Pain
• Paget's disease
• Arthritis

When do bones stop growing?

• About 95% of a young woman's peak bone mass is present by age 20, and some overall gains in mass often continue until age 30. The average boy has his fastest rate of growth in height between ages 13 and 14, and stops growing between ages 17 and 18.

What bones are not yet fused together when you are born? Why are these bones not fused together?

But why aren’t these bones already fused together at birth? Well, most of these unfused bones are located in the newborn’s skull. When a baby is born, it has to squeeze itself through the mother’s birth canal.

Find 5 facts about bones.

• The adult human body has 206 of them.
• There are 26 bones in the human foot.
• The human hand, including the wrist, contains 54 bones.
• The femur, or thighbone, is the longest and strongest bone of the human skeleton.
• The stapes, in the middle ear, is the smallest and lightest bone of the human skeleton.