Osteogenesis Imperfect Research Paper

Osteogenesis Imperfect is also known as the, “Brittle Bone Disease”. This is an extremely rare disease with less than twenty thousand cases a year. As of today there is no known available cure, but there are treatments available to lessen the symptoms of the disease. This is a chronic illness that can last up to a few months, to lasting a person’s entire lifetime. This is a disease that causes extreme fragility in the bones of a normal person. This could make a person’s life extremely difficult because it could turn a minor accident such as a trip, into an emergency room visit because they broke their leg from a small trip. Osteogenesis imperfecta is a biological disease caused by defective genes. Osteogenesis imperfecta also known as OI for …show more content…
Most patients with type I are destined to loss their hearing by the young age of forty years old. Along with hearing loss, they also risk easily bruising from the slightest impact because they are so extremely fragile. As for type II patients, they face worse physical conditions because of their illness. They may be born with a smaller nose compared to a healthier person. A person with type II OI faces a more life threatening life because they risk that their ribs are going to be beaded and deformed. Other long bones in their body also risk being deformed. Most people who died from type II OI die because of the fragility of their ribs, hemorrhages or even malformations of the central nervous system, and pulmonary hypoplasia which is the underdevelopment of the lungs which is usually developed at birth. As for type III, may suffer from skull deformity which result from the delivery of them as an infant. They also suffer from bone aches and muscle aches very frequently compared to other types of OI. They also suffer from deformity of their arms which may not even function at all but if they do it limits their actions greatly because they can’t perform everyday activities. Their limbs are also shorter than other OI patients with different diseases which can also be deformed at