The skeleton is among the most commonly injured body tissues. Every year more than 16 million fractures of long bones occur in the United States. Fortunately, bone has excellent regenerative ...

The first, called intramembranous ossification, is responsible for final development of the skull bones, jaw-bones and collarbones. The other process, called endochondral ossification, controls ...

The bone continues to develop throughout adulthood to repair fractures and remodel bone. There are two types of bone formation or ossification, namely, intramembranous ossification and ...

And later in life, during the second, third decade, heterotopic bone forms in the jaw and in ... prevent heterotopic ossification after an injury like a muscle pinch or a broken bone.