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What is bone?

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Ridged inflexible mineralised connective tissue

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What is bone mineralised by?

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Calcium and phosphate salts

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Why are bones important?

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  1. Provides physical integrity/ support
  2. Protects squishy organs
  3. Allows for insertion of muscles and tendons
  4. Provides minerals
  5. Important in haematopoiesis
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What minerals does bone provide

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  1. Calcium
  2. Phosphorous
  3. Magnesium
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What is haematopoiesis?

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It is the formation, development and maturation of blood cells in adult bone marrow

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Where does haematopoiesis occur in adults?

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Bone marrow

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Name the parts that make up bone

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  1. Non cellular mineralised matrix

2. Cells that maintain the matrix

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What is the matrix that makes up bone made up of?

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  1. Type I collagen- osteoid
  2. Calcium phosphate (calcium hydroxyapatite)
  3. Regulatory protein and growth factors
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What is type 1 collagen in bone called?

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Osteoid

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List the cells that maintain the matrix in bone

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  1. Osteoblasts
  2. Osteocytes
  3. Osteoclasts
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Why is mineralisation critical?

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The osteoid would be soft and bendy if it wasn’t mineralised

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What do osteoblasts do?

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They build up the bone

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What is the origin of osteoblasts

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Mesenchymal origin

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What is the function of osteoblasts?

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  1. They secrete osteoid

2. Needed for mineralisation

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What are osteocytes

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Inactive osteoblasts that are trapped in the bone

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What is the origin of osteoclasts

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Macrophage lineage

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What do osteoclasts do?

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They are involved in bone resorption and remodelling

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How can bone be categorised?

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  1. Maturity type

2. Location type

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Name the different types of bone based on maturity

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  1. Woven bone (immature bone)

2. Lamellar bone

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Describe woven bone

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It is immature bone as the osteoid collagen is random

It is remodelled into lamellar bone

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What causes the random osteoid formation in woven bones?

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Rapid bone turnover by osteoblasts

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What is woven bone remodelled into?

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Lamellar bone

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Where is woven bone found?

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In fractures

Fetal developemt

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Describe lamellar bone

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Made up of parallel bands/ sheets of lamellae

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Where is lamellar bone found?
Makes up the majority of normal healthy adult bone
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What are the two different types of lamellar bone?
Compact (CB) | Cancellous (T)
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Which type of bone is stronger? WHY?
Lamellar bone is much stronger due to regular arrangement of lamellae
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Name the different types of bone based on location?
1. Cortical/ compact | 2. Cancellous. trabecular
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Describe Cortical bone
Has a hard outer shell and regular shape It is highly organised Follows the Haversian system
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What system does cortical bone follow?
The Haversian system
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What is the Haversian system
Columns of lamellar bone (v compact and dense)
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Describe cancellous/ trabecular bone
Spongy non structural "filler" bone
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What is found in the spaces between cancellous bone?
Bone marrow
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How are the different bone types organised?
Cortical bone surrounds cancellous bone
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Why is bone remodelling important?
1. To maintain bone strength as your bones constantly suffer from trauma like micro fractures through the day 2. To be able to release metabolites
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List the stages of the bone remodelling cycle
1. Activation 2. Resorption 3. Reversal 4. Formation
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How is bone remodelling activated?
By hormones or damage
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What happens when bone remodelling is activated by hormones of damage>
1. Osteoblasts are activated 2. Cytokines are released 3. Osteoclasts stick to the surface of the bone
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What is the next stage after activation in the bone remodelling cycle
Resorption
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What happens in the Resorption stage of the bone remodelling cycle
1. Mono nuclear osteocytes that are stuck to the surface of bone secrete substances 2. These substances resorb bone 3. Create pits on the surface 4. Mono nuclear osteocytes undergo apoptosis or migrate
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What is the next stage after Resorption in the bone remodelling cycle
Reversal
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What happens in the reversal stage of the bone remodelling cycle
Monocytes clear debris for bone formation
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What is the next stage after reversal in the bone remodelling cycle
formation
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What happens in the formation stage of the bone remodelling cycle
1. Osteoblasts are recruited 2. They secrete osteoid matrix and initiate mineralisation 3. Osteoblasts sit on the new bone 4. some undergo apoptosis and some are incorporated as osteocytes
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What is another name for immature bones?
Woven bone
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What is another name for mature bones
Lamellar bone
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Compact and cancellous bone are both what type of bone?
Lamellar bone
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What is osteoarthritis?
Progressive erosion of articular cartridge
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Is osteoarthritis just erosion?
No it is a complex imbalance of damage and repairs
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What happens in osteoarthritis
Underlying bone is exposed This leads to damage and the formation of cysts / osteophytes causing inflammation pain This ultimately leads to narrowing joint space
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What are osteophytes
Abnormal growth in bone
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How common is osteoarthritis?
uptown 80% of over 65s have evidence of having osteoarthritis
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What are some of the symptoms of osteoarthritis
1. Pain/ functional limitation | 2. Morning stiffness
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What are some of the signs of osteoarthritis
1. Crepitus (crunchy) 2. Restricted movements 3. Bony enlargement 4. Instability/ muscle wasting
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What are the differences between signs and symptoms
Signs are something you observe as a clinical | Symptoms are things patients present with
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What is a primary cause for disease?
Unknown cause or unknown origin for a disease | no underlying cause for the disease
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Give some secondary causes of osteoarthritis
1. Pre existing joint damage 2. Metabolic disease 3. Systemic disease
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How do you investigate osteoarthritis
1. Blood tests to make sure rheumatoid factor is negative and to look for bone markers 2. X-tay will show cartilage loss. joint space narrowing and cysts
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What would a raised rheumatoid factor suggests?
the patient may have rheumatoid arthritis
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How do we manage osteoarthritis
1. Physical: weight loss, hydrotherapy 2. Medications: NSAIDS, steroids 3. Surgery: joint replacement
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What is rheumatoid arthritis?
It is an autoimmune disease consisting of persistent inflammation (synovitis) leading to chronic symmetrical
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List the 3 factors that strongly influences the progression of rheumatoid arthritis
1. Gender: women at higher risk 2. Genetic: associated with human leucocyte antigen (HLA) 3. Environmental: periodontal disease may contribute to it
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Who is most affected by rheumatoid arthritis?
Younger (30-50) women
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What does synovitis
Inflammation
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What happens in rheumatoid arthritis
Citrullination of self antigens leading to loss of normal tolerance as the antigens are no longer recognised as self cells Auto immune response occurs leading to inflammation leading to damage
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What is citrullination?
Protein modification from arginine to citrulline
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What are the differences between rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis?
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune synovitis leading to mass formation and sticking of joins together Osteoarthritis is just breakdown of cartridge leading to damage to bone
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What is ankylosis
Abnormal stiffening/ immobility in joint due to bony fusion
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How do we investigate rheumatoid arthritis
1. Blood tests: bony markers present and look for anti citrullinated peptide antibodies. Can also look for rheumatoid factor 2. X rays show synovitis and joint damage
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How do we manage rheumatoid arthritis
Theres no cure | Can give them anti inflammatories, steroids, anti-TNF, disease modifying anti rheumatic drugs (DMARD)
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What is Paget's disease?
A disorder of bone turnover/ remodelling
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Wjay happens in paget's disease?
Increased osteoclastic bone resorption leading to increased new bone formation Formation happens at a faster rate than resorption but woven bone is made
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What is the problem with increased formation of woven bone?
Woven bone is weaker than lamellar bone | This can leaf to deformity and increased risk of fracture
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What is the aetiology of paget's disease
Unknown aetiology Suggested to be a combination of environmental and genetic Mutation in osteoblast gene
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How is paget's disease presented in most people?
60-80% asymptomatic | Some present with bone pain/ joint pain or bone deformities
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If Paget's disease is mainly asymptotic how is it diagnosed?
Usually patients come in for an X-ray and the x ray shows changes
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Describe how the bone in patients with Paget's disease may look
Cotton wool like appearance (hypercementosis)
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What are some of of the side effects of having Paget's disease?
1. Nerve compression leading to deafness 2. Spinal stenosis 3. Hydrocephalus 4. Cardiac failure, myocardial hypertrophy due to increased blood flow 5. Pathological fractures 6. Osteosarcoma
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What is hypercementosis
Excessive cementum on the roots of teeth
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Name the stages of paget's disease
1. Hot osteolytic phase 2. Mixed phase 3. Cold osteosclerotic phase
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What happens in the hot osteolytic phase of Paget's disease?
Osteoclasts are breaking down bone
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What happens in the mixed phase of Paget's disease?
Both osteoclasts and osteoblasts are working
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What happens in the Cold osteosclerotic phase of Paget's disease?
Burn out inactive phase but bone is still weak and woven
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How do we treat paget's disease?
With biphosphonates
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How do biphosphonates work?
1. Inhibit osteoclasts recruitment 2. Inhibit osteoclast activity 3. Slow bone loss
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Other than Paget's disease what else can biphosphonates treat?
Used in osteoporosis
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What is a serious side effect of using biphosphonates?
Osteonecrosis of the Jaw
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What is osteomyelitis?
Inflammation of bone / bone marrow
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What is osteomyelitis almost always due to?
Virtually always secondary to infection
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How do most people develop osteomyelitis
1. Haematogenous spread (through blood) 2. Extension from adjacent site 3. Direct implantation
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What is the most common cause for children developing osteomyelitis
Haematogenous spread
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What is the most common cause for adults developing osteomyelitis?
Fractures Surgical infections Diabetic foot
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Describe the clinical presentation of osteomyelitis
1. Fever 2. Localised bone pain 3. Overlying tenderness/ erythema
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How do you diagnose osteomyelitis
1. MRI / bone scan 2. Blood cultures 3. Bone culture and sensitivity test
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How do we treat osteomyelitis
Immobilise Antibiotics Can drain or make excision
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How common is chronic osteomyelitis
Occurs in 5-25% of cases
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What os the cause of osteomyelitis of the jaw and when does it happen?
It has a poly microbial cause and is secondary to odontogenic infection
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Name some different types of osteomyelitis
1. Chronic osteomyelitis 2. Osteomyelitis of the jaw 3. Tuberculosis osteomyelitis
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Name some historical subtypes of osteomyelitis
1. Focal sclerosing 2. Diffuse sclerosing 3. Proliferative periostitis
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Define fractures
Loss of bone integrity
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What can fractures be caused by?
Mechanical injury and/or diminished bone strength
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Give examples of different types of fractures
1. Simple 2. Compound 3. Comminuted 4. Displaced 5. Stress 6. Greenstick 7. Pathologic
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What is a compound fracture?
A fracture where bone is exposed
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What is a stress fracture
A slow developing fracture due to repeated repetitive loads
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What is a greenstick fracture
Partial fracture through bone
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What is a pathologic fracture
Weakened bone due to existing disease
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List the 3 phases of fracture healing
1. Inflammatory phase 2. Reparative phase 3. Remodelling phase
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What is another name for the reparative phase of fracture healing
Endochondral
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What happens in the inflammatory phase of fracture healing
1. Haematoma forms 2. Macrophages, neutrophils and platelets release cytokines 3. Fibroblasts and mesenchymal cells go to fracture site 4. Granulation tissue forms around the fracture ends 5. Neurovascularisation 6. Osteoblasts, chondrocytes, fibroblasts proliferate
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What are the benefits of a haematoma forming?
Stems blood flow from site of injury and is also a source of haemopoietic cells and growth factors
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What is granulation tissue?
Vascular tissue
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What does the inflammatory phase ultimately lead to the formation of?
A callus
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What happens in the reparative phase of bone healing
1. Primary callus forms quickly 2. Cartilage provides provisional stabilisation 3. Endochondral ossification converts soft callus to hard callus
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Why is the reparative phase also known as the endochondral phase
As endochondral ossification converts soft callus into hard callus
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What is soft callus?
Cartilage
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What is hard callus
Woven bone
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What happens in the remodelling phase of bone healing
1. Bony callus tissue is resorbed | 2. Osteoblast and osteoclast remodel to bones original cortex structure
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What is osteonecrosis?
Infarction of bone/marrow
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What is osteonecrosis also known as?
Avascular, aseptic or ischaemic necrosis
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What are most cases of osteonecrosis due to?
Alcohol Steroids Fractures
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What is the underlying cause of ALL cases of osteonecrosis?
Vascular insufficiency through mechanical injury to blood vessels, thromboembolism, external pressure
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Is osteonecrosis due to infection?
NO it is aseptic
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What do patients with osteonecrosis osteoarthritis display?
``` Joint pain (shoulder or hip) Can be asymptomatic ```
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What will an MRI of osteonecrosis show?
Bone marrow oedema / plain x ray
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How do we manage osteonecrosis
1. Surgical decompression 2. Grafts 3. Joint replacement
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What controls serum calcium in the body
Vitamin D | Parathyroid hormone
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What is released if calcium levels are low?
Parathyroid hormone
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How does the parathyroid hormone help increase calcium levels
1. Increased osteoclast bone resorption 2. Increased intestinal calcium absorption 3. Increased renal tubular resorption Ca 4. Increased renal excretion of PO4
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How does vitamin D increase calcium levels?
Increases intestinal absorption of calcium which increases mineralisation of bone
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What effect does serum calcium on vitamin D?
Vitamin D increases bone respiration with LOW serum calcium BUT decreases bone resorption with HIGH serum calcium
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What is another term for rickets
Osteomalacia
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What causes rickets?
Defective mineralisation
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What is rickets
Defective mineralisation of epiphyseal plate in children that can lead to weakened (bendy) bones
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What is osteomalacia?
Defective mineralisation of epiphyseal plate in adults that can lead to weak bone formation during remodelling and makes the patient vulnerable to fractures
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What is the aetiology of rickets/ osteomalacia
Anything that interferes with bone mineralisation Eg 1. Deficient intake or absorption of vitamin D 2. Defective 1alpha hydroxylation eg renal failure 3. Primary renal phosphate wasting 4. Inhibitors or mineralisation 5. Defective vitamin D receptors
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What causes vitamin D deficiency?
1. Nutritional (dietary, inadequate exposure to sunlight) 2. Malabsorption due to coeliac disease 3. Vitamin D dependent rickets type 1 and 2
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What happens in vitamin D deficiency?
1. Reduced serum calcium phosphate 2. Parathyroid hormone secreted causing bone to demineralise 3. Increased serum calcium 4. Bone is now poorly mineralised
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Give some dentinal complications of rickets
1. Familial hypophospataemia 2. Hypoplasia 3. Missing teeth
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Give some signs and symptoms of Familial hypophospataemia
1. Abnormally large pulp chamber 2. Thin enamel 3. Dentinal defects/ globular dentin 4. Dentinal abscesses more common
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What is hyperparathyroidism?
Anything that causes pathological increase of parathyroid hormone
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What can increased parathyroid hormone lead to ?
1. Increased osteoclast bone resorption 2. Increased intestinal calcium absorption 3. Increased synthesis of D3 4. Increased renal tubular resorption of calcium 5. Increased renal excretion of PO4
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Name the 3 types of hyperparathyroidism
1. Primary: Autonomous hyperparathyroidism 2. Secondary: Compensatory hyper secretion 3. Tertiary: persistent hyperparathyroidism even when decreased calcium corrected
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What is primary hyperparathyroidism the most common cause of?
Asymptomatic hypercalcemia
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What is primary hyperparathyroidism caused by?
1. Adenoma 2. Hyperplasia 3. Malignancy
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What symptoms do patients with primary hyperparathyroidism present with?
1. Bone disease/ bone pain (BONE) 2. Renal stones (STONES) 3. GI disturbances including constipation, nausea, peptic ulcers (GROANS) 4. CNS alterations eg depression and seizures(MOANS)
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What is secondary hyperparathyroidism categorised by?
Any condition that causes reduced calcium leading to increased para thyroid hormone
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What is osteogenesis imperfecta also known as?
Brittle bone disease
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What is osteogenesis imperfecta caused by?
Gene mutation affecting the type 1 collagen gene (osteoid)
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What is osteogenesis imperfecta usually presented with?
Increased fractures (can start in utero)
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List some dentinal manifestations of osteogenesis imperfecta
Dentinogeneisis imperfecta type II
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Name the 2 types of ossification
1. Endochondral | 2. Intramembranous
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Which type of ossification occurs in the maxilla and mandible?
Intramembranous ossification
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What is Intramembranous ossification
Deposition of bone within primitive mesenchymal tissue
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What is achondroplasia due to?
FGFR3 gene mutation
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What is the purpose of the FGFR 3 gene
It inhibits endochondral growth
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What happens with the FGFR 3 gene undergoes gene mutation?
Can impair cartilaginous growth
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What does FGFR3 stand for
Fibroblast growth factor receptor
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What can patients with achondroplasia present with|?
Short limbs | Normal skull/ trunk
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List some craniofacial issues patients with achondroplasia may suffer from
1. Macrocephaly / prominent forehead 2. Flattened/ depressed nasal bridge 3. Hypoplasia of midfacial structures 4. Maxilarry hypoplasia 5. Relative overgrowth of the mandible 6. Narrowing of anterior palate, open Bute 7. Orthodontic intervention

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