I put the chin in you, sorry
I meant quality, I don't know what kind of guides you make or write and rep isn't related to quality
thanks!
I would argue low effort but mid quality but yeah,at least the op isn't seething about "muh your posts are shitpost drama threads
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ah they're off topic threads, the rep requirement makes sense thenI would argue low effort but mid quality but yeah,at least the op isn't seething about "muh your posts are shitpost drama threads
Respectful user.
Mirin the post tho
Good stuff man. Mirin.The Radiology behind Facial Development & Bodily Growth Indicators
By @Orka
I've seen at least 50 questions asking if somebody's growth plates are still open or not, or to estimate their bone age,so to make it easy, here's how you can answer your own questions!
Table Of Contents (easiest to hardest)
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
- What are growth plates?
- Analysis of your wrist’s growth plate
- Analysis of your knee’s growth plate
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
- Midpalatal Suture
- Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures in your face
- Nasal Septal Cartilage
3. How to estimate bone age
- An Introduction to TW3-RUS
- Where to look & how to determine sizes [ Custom reference sheets ]
- Process walkthrough & conclusion
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
A growth plate (or an Epiphyseal plate) is a region of cartilage near the ends of long bones in children and adolescents where new bone tissue is created, causing the bone to grow in length and width.
This process continues until adolescence, when the growth plates harden into solid bone, a process called "closing" or “fusing”.
Male growth plates tend to fuse at around 16-19, once your plates have fused/closed, they will not grow any longer or wider.
Now, to find out if your growth plates are fused or not, we’re going to look at your wrist & knees for your height, and at your clavicles for your frame.
View attachment 4297716
Above I've added 3 figures, from open ( A ) to fully fused ( C ), those are your growth plates, if theres a visible line like in B, they’re still open, but closer to fusion. ( You will typically see this in X-rays of teenagers). Whereas if you don’t see any lines at all, it means the cartilage has hardened into solid bone, ending any growth potential.
View attachment 4297802
Once again, refer to the graphic above.
If there’s a visible gap or a full line, your growth plates are open, if there’s no visible line, they’re closed.
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
The most important sutures when it comes to facial development are your Midpalatal, Frontomaxillary, Zygomatomaxillary & Pterygopalatine Sutures, but in reality your sutures aren't a growth center, meaning that scanning them and determining their status is for the most part useless, except for the midpalatal suture (one that is a little bit important!)
i. Midpalatal Suture
View attachment 4297717
Here are graphics (I) and CBCT Scans (II) of your midpalatal suture.
Figure A is a young child, 10-12 years old, then onto Figure B where the child is 11-13, C where they’re 13-15, D representing a 15-19 year old, and E representing a fully fused midpalatal suture of a fully grown person, usually 19-20+ years old.
If you still see a line on your scan, your suture is not fused. If you do not see any line on your scan, it’s fused.
Your midpalatal suture begins fusing from the back, so the line you do see will get shorter & shorter until eventually it matures and fuses completely.
Clinically speaking the only significant thing you need to take away from your scans are if your midpalatal suture is fused or not, around the ages of 15-19 you’ll likely have this scan done by your ortho if you’re considering getting a palate expander of any kind.
If it is fused, then you’ll likely be assigned a SARME, SARPE or SAMARPE for your expansion ( Note that this will not mean your zygos become wider, or any extreme external aesthetic benefit, your palate will get wider. ) whereas if it’s not fused, you’ll typically be assigned a regular mse / expander.
ii. Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures.
Before joining this forum I was super active in many looksmaxing discord servers, where I noticed people believing Sutures worked similarly to growth plates.
I’m not saying you believe this, I’m adding this section to clear up misconceptions.
Your sutures are not growth centers, they do not grow & just because your sutures are open doesn’t mean they’ll grow.
The status of your sutures simply shows if the area will respond to growth or not.
If your sutures are closed, no you won’t grow anymore, but just because they’re open doesn’t mean they’ll grow, so even if you notice all your sutures are open, your growth still might be over.
iii. Nasal Septal Cartilage
As opposed to Sutures, The Nasal Septal Cartilage is a growth center, meaning its made of the same Hyaline cartilage that your growth plates are made of.
View attachment 4297722
This area is mainly responsible for growing your midface forward, or downwards (oh no!).
Now, the moment this cartilage stops growing, the development of your midface stops aswell.
This is cartilage, meaning it doesn’t show up xrays, or CT/CBCT Scans, the only place you can actually see it is on MRI’s, but there’s literally no way you can bullshit your way into getting an MRI, especially for something like this.
Now the typical method to determine this is actually through lefthand xrays, hyaline cartilage ossifying is systematic, which is why you can check your knee or your wrist to determine your growth plate status, and not have to check both or prioritize one of them.
It’s as simple as this, if the growth plates in your wrist or knee are fused (see Chapter 1 of this guide to determine that), then your nasal septal cartilage has also ossified and completed its work. (Most of the time, after one growth site in your body has ossified, the others follow suit within the next few months, not enough time to get any significant growth anyways).
3. How to estimate your bone age. (Better than ChatGPT)
In my personal experience experimenting with this method, my estimates have beaten chatgpt 3/3 times.
I’m not an experienced radiologist, and asking chatgpt is the only other option for users to estimate their bone age without going to a radiologist (This isn’t to replace a radiologist’s rating, this is for an at-home analysis)
The method we’re going to be using is the Tanner-Whitehouse 3, Radius-Ulna-Short Bones method. For simplicity’s sake I’ll refer to it as the TW3-RUS method from now on.
The typical margin of error using this method is 6-9 months, although during puberty this can differ up to over a year since people can have unpredictable and uneven growth spurts.
TW3-RUS is the most refined and as of today the best method for estimating bone age.
To continue with this method & estimate your own bone age, you’ll need an xray of your non dominant hand, including your wrist. We’re going to be evaluating a total of 13 bones.
I’ve worked my ass off to create the following reference sheets, so here’s what you’re going to do with them.
I added references for stages A (Completely unfused), E-F (Partial fusion, basically late stages of puberty), and I (Complete Fusion)
You will have to eyeball this now using your own xrays, I’ve given three examples and some wiggle-room for letters using a reference bar (green-red) below the image, write down your estimated guesses in a text file until you finish all 13 bones.
Don’t doubt yourself, eyeballing isn’t perfect but it still works well, just choose & continue.
Ex.
“My Radius looks more fused than the image from E-F, but its not as fused as I, it’s closer to the 2nd picture though, so I’ll rate it G” And continue
Bonetype: Radius (distal end)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: Ulna (distal end)
View attachment 4297727
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Metacarpal (thumb)
View attachment 4297729
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Metacarpal (middle finger)
View attachment 4297731
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Metacarpal (pinky)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297736
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297737
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297738
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297739
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297741
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Distal Phalanx (thumb)
View attachment 4297742
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Distal Phalanx (middle finger)
View attachment 4297743
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Distal Phalanx (pinky)
View attachment 4297744
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
There you go, it wasn’t that hard was it?
Now that you’ve got your letters written down, it should look something like this:
Radius = H, Ulna = G
1st MC = I, 3rd MC = I, 5th MC = H
1st PProx = I, 3rd PProx = I, 5th PProx = H
3rd PMid = H, 5th PMid = G
1st PDist = I, 3rd PDist = H, 5th PDist = H
( You should have labeled them ideally, and the letters will vary )
Now convert these letters into numerical value ( TW3-RUS Score )
View attachment 4297753
For each letter you should assign points per bone, then calculate the total by combining all of the points
Total TW3-RUS Score Estimated Bone age ( male ) Estimated Bone age ( female ) 400 9 Years 6 Months 9 Years 3 Months 425 10 Years 3 Months 9 Years 9 Months 450 11 Years 0 Months 10 Years 0 Months 475 11 Years 6 Months 11 Years 0 Months 500 12 Years 3 Months 12 Years 0 Months 525 12 Years 9 Months 12 Years 6 Months 550 13 Years 3 Months 13 Years 0 Months 575 13 Years 9 Months 13 Years 6 Months 600 14 Years 3 Months 14 Years 0 Months
625 14 Years 9 Months 14 Years 6 Months 650 15 Years 3 Months 15 Years 0 Months 675 15 Years 9 Months 15 Years 6 Months 700 16 Years 3 Months 15 Years 9 Months 725 16 Years 9 Months 16 Years 0 Months 750 17 Years 3 Months 16 Years 3 Months 775 17 Years 9 Months 16 Years 9 Months 800 18 Years 17 Years 0 Months
There’s your bone age within a 6-9 month range. You can consider adding another slight margin of error since you’re not an experienced radiologist & don’t have experience reading these.
Bone age = chronological age = normal growth tempo ( You’ll grow normally )
Bone age < chronological age = delayed skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow more )
Bone age > chronological age = advanced skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow less )
If you want to practice & get better at this, I’ve left a link to a 10gb dataset of left hand xrays (with the correct result bone age assigned) as a link below
I hope this helped, and I hope I didn’t annihilate your dreams of growing taller
Lefthand Xrays used for graphics & Depictions:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kmader/rsna-bone-age?select=boneage-training-dataset.csv
I used these images from the dataset for my examples:
10982.png, 1498.png, 1387.png, 10552.png, 1934.png
I also used Assessment of skeletal maturity and prediction of adult height (TW3 method) [ Book ]
By J.M. Tanner
You do not want to know how difficult it was to get information out of this book. Fucking lost media.
Tags: @BigBallsLarry @Quncho @aids @ybuyhgui @chadisbeingmade
( I won’t be tagging my off-topic friends for guides like these, sorry guys. )
Amazing thread if İ ever get an x ray will useThe Radiology behind Facial Development & Bodily Growth Indicators
By @Orka
I've seen at least 50 questions asking if somebody's growth plates are still open or not, or to estimate their bone age,so to make it easy, here's how you can answer your own questions!
Table Of Contents (easiest to hardest)
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
- What are growth plates?
- Analysis of your wrist’s growth plate
- Analysis of your knee’s growth plate
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
- Midpalatal Suture
- Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures in your face
- Nasal Septal Cartilage
3. How to estimate bone age
- An Introduction to TW3-RUS
- Where to look & how to determine sizes [ Custom reference sheets ]
- Process walkthrough & conclusion
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
A growth plate (or an Epiphyseal plate) is a region of cartilage near the ends of long bones in children and adolescents where new bone tissue is created, causing the bone to grow in length and width.
This process continues until adolescence, when the growth plates harden into solid bone, a process called "closing" or “fusing”.
Male growth plates tend to fuse at around 16-19, once your plates have fused/closed, they will not grow any longer or wider.
Now, to find out if your growth plates are fused or not, we’re going to look at your wrist & knees for your height, and at your clavicles for your frame.
View attachment 4297716
Above I've added 3 figures, from open ( A ) to fully fused ( C ), those are your growth plates, if theres a visible line like in B, they’re still open, but closer to fusion. ( You will typically see this in X-rays of teenagers). Whereas if you don’t see any lines at all, it means the cartilage has hardened into solid bone, ending any growth potential.
View attachment 4297802
Once again, refer to the graphic above.
If there’s a visible gap or a full line, your growth plates are open, if there’s no visible line, they’re closed.
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
The most important sutures when it comes to facial development are your Midpalatal, Frontomaxillary, Zygomatomaxillary & Pterygopalatine Sutures, but in reality your sutures aren't a growth center, meaning that scanning them and determining their status is for the most part useless, except for the midpalatal suture (one that is a little bit important!)
i. Midpalatal Suture
View attachment 4297717
Here are graphics (I) and CBCT Scans (II) of your midpalatal suture.
Figure A is a young child, 10-12 years old, then onto Figure B where the child is 11-13, C where they’re 13-15, D representing a 15-19 year old, and E representing a fully fused midpalatal suture of a fully grown person, usually 19-20+ years old.
If you still see a line on your scan, your suture is not fused. If you do not see any line on your scan, it’s fused.
Your midpalatal suture begins fusing from the back, so the line you do see will get shorter & shorter until eventually it matures and fuses completely.
Clinically speaking the only significant thing you need to take away from your scans are if your midpalatal suture is fused or not, around the ages of 15-19 you’ll likely have this scan done by your ortho if you’re considering getting a palate expander of any kind.
If it is fused, then you’ll likely be assigned a SARME, SARPE or SAMARPE for your expansion ( Note that this will not mean your zygos become wider, or any extreme external aesthetic benefit, your palate will get wider. ) whereas if it’s not fused, you’ll typically be assigned a regular mse / expander.
ii. Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures.
Before joining this forum I was super active in many looksmaxing discord servers, where I noticed people believing Sutures worked similarly to growth plates.
I’m not saying you believe this, I’m adding this section to clear up misconceptions.
Your sutures are not growth centers, they do not grow & just because your sutures are open doesn’t mean they’ll grow.
The status of your sutures simply shows if the area will respond to growth or not.
If your sutures are closed, no you won’t grow anymore, but just because they’re open doesn’t mean they’ll grow, so even if you notice all your sutures are open, your growth still might be over.
iii. Nasal Septal Cartilage
As opposed to Sutures, The Nasal Septal Cartilage is a growth center, meaning its made of the same Hyaline cartilage that your growth plates are made of.
View attachment 4297722
This area is mainly responsible for growing your midface forward, or downwards (oh no!).
Now, the moment this cartilage stops growing, the development of your midface stops aswell.
This is cartilage, meaning it doesn’t show up xrays, or CT/CBCT Scans, the only place you can actually see it is on MRI’s, but there’s literally no way you can bullshit your way into getting an MRI, especially for something like this.
Now the typical method to determine this is actually through lefthand xrays, hyaline cartilage ossifying is systematic, which is why you can check your knee or your wrist to determine your growth plate status, and not have to check both or prioritize one of them.
It’s as simple as this, if the growth plates in your wrist or knee are fused (see Chapter 1 of this guide to determine that), then your nasal septal cartilage has also ossified and completed its work. (Most of the time, after one growth site in your body has ossified, the others follow suit within the next few months, not enough time to get any significant growth anyways).
3. How to estimate your bone age. (Better than ChatGPT)
In my personal experience experimenting with this method, my estimates have beaten chatgpt 3/3 times.
I’m not an experienced radiologist, and asking chatgpt is the only other option for users to estimate their bone age without going to a radiologist (This isn’t to replace a radiologist’s rating, this is for an at-home analysis)
The method we’re going to be using is the Tanner-Whitehouse 3, Radius-Ulna-Short Bones method. For simplicity’s sake I’ll refer to it as the TW3-RUS method from now on.
The typical margin of error using this method is 6-9 months, although during puberty this can differ up to over a year since people can have unpredictable and uneven growth spurts.
TW3-RUS is the most refined and as of today the best method for estimating bone age.
To continue with this method & estimate your own bone age, you’ll need an xray of your non dominant hand, including your wrist. We’re going to be evaluating a total of 13 bones.
I’ve worked my ass off to create the following reference sheets, so here’s what you’re going to do with them.
I added references for stages A (Completely unfused), E-F (Partial fusion, basically late stages of puberty), and I (Complete Fusion)
You will have to eyeball this now using your own xrays, I’ve given three examples and some wiggle-room for letters using a reference bar (green-red) below the image, write down your estimated guesses in a text file until you finish all 13 bones.
Don’t doubt yourself, eyeballing isn’t perfect but it still works well, just choose & continue.
Ex.
“My Radius looks more fused than the image from E-F, but its not as fused as I, it’s closer to the 2nd picture though, so I’ll rate it G” And continue
Bonetype: Radius (distal end)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: Ulna (distal end)
View attachment 4297727
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Metacarpal (thumb)
View attachment 4297729
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Metacarpal (middle finger)
View attachment 4297731
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Metacarpal (pinky)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297736
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297737
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297738
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297739
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297741
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Distal Phalanx (thumb)
View attachment 4297742
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Distal Phalanx (middle finger)
View attachment 4297743
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Distal Phalanx (pinky)
View attachment 4297744
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
There you go, it wasn’t that hard was it?
Now that you’ve got your letters written down, it should look something like this:
Radius = H, Ulna = G
1st MC = I, 3rd MC = I, 5th MC = H
1st PProx = I, 3rd PProx = I, 5th PProx = H
3rd PMid = H, 5th PMid = G
1st PDist = I, 3rd PDist = H, 5th PDist = H
( You should have labeled them ideally, and the letters will vary )
Now convert these letters into numerical value ( TW3-RUS Score )
View attachment 4297753
For each letter you should assign points per bone, then calculate the total by combining all of the points
Total TW3-RUS Score Estimated Bone age ( male ) Estimated Bone age ( female ) 400 9 Years 6 Months 9 Years 3 Months 425 10 Years 3 Months 9 Years 9 Months 450 11 Years 0 Months 10 Years 0 Months 475 11 Years 6 Months 11 Years 0 Months 500 12 Years 3 Months 12 Years 0 Months 525 12 Years 9 Months 12 Years 6 Months 550 13 Years 3 Months 13 Years 0 Months 575 13 Years 9 Months 13 Years 6 Months 600 14 Years 3 Months 14 Years 0 Months
625 14 Years 9 Months 14 Years 6 Months 650 15 Years 3 Months 15 Years 0 Months 675 15 Years 9 Months 15 Years 6 Months 700 16 Years 3 Months 15 Years 9 Months 725 16 Years 9 Months 16 Years 0 Months 750 17 Years 3 Months 16 Years 3 Months 775 17 Years 9 Months 16 Years 9 Months 800 18 Years 17 Years 0 Months
There’s your bone age within a 6-9 month range. You can consider adding another slight margin of error since you’re not an experienced radiologist & don’t have experience reading these.
Bone age = chronological age = normal growth tempo ( You’ll grow normally )
Bone age < chronological age = delayed skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow more )
Bone age > chronological age = advanced skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow less )
If you want to practice & get better at this, I’ve left a link to a 10gb dataset of left hand xrays (with the correct result bone age assigned) as a link below
I hope this helped, and I hope I didn’t annihilate your dreams of growing taller
Lefthand Xrays used for graphics & Depictions:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kmader/rsna-bone-age?select=boneage-training-dataset.csv
I used these images from the dataset for my examples:
10982.png, 1498.png, 1387.png, 10552.png, 1934.png
I also used Assessment of skeletal maturity and prediction of adult height (TW3 method) [ Book ]
By J.M. Tanner
You do not want to know how difficult it was to get information out of this book. Fucking lost media.
Tags: @BigBallsLarry @Quncho @aids @ybuyhgui @chadisbeingmade
( I won’t be tagging my off-topic friends for guides like these, sorry guys. )
I got an X-ray and my bone age was younger than me so my docter prescribed hghThe Radiology behind Facial Development & Bodily Growth Indicators
By @Orka
I've seen at least 50 questions asking if somebody's growth plates are still open or not, or to estimate their bone age,so to make it easy, here's how you can answer your own questions!
Table Of Contents (easiest to hardest)
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
- What are growth plates?
- Analysis of your wrist’s growth plate
- Analysis of your knee’s growth plate
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
- Midpalatal Suture
- Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures in your face
- Nasal Septal Cartilage
3. How to estimate bone age
- An Introduction to TW3-RUS
- Where to look & how to determine sizes [ Custom reference sheets ]
- Process walkthrough & conclusion
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
A growth plate (or an Epiphyseal plate) is a region of cartilage near the ends of long bones in children and adolescents where new bone tissue is created, causing the bone to grow in length and width.
This process continues until adolescence, when the growth plates harden into solid bone, a process called "closing" or “fusing”.
Male growth plates tend to fuse at around 16-19, once your plates have fused/closed, they will not grow any longer or wider.
Now, to find out if your growth plates are fused or not, we’re going to look at your wrist & knees for your height, and at your clavicles for your frame.
View attachment 4297716
Above I've added 3 figures, from open ( A ) to fully fused ( C ), those are your growth plates, if theres a visible line like in B, they’re still open, but closer to fusion. ( You will typically see this in X-rays of teenagers). Whereas if you don’t see any lines at all, it means the cartilage has hardened into solid bone, ending any growth potential.
View attachment 4297802
Once again, refer to the graphic above.
If there’s a visible gap or a full line, your growth plates are open, if there’s no visible line, they’re closed.
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
The most important sutures when it comes to facial development are your Midpalatal, Frontomaxillary, Zygomatomaxillary & Pterygopalatine Sutures, but in reality your sutures aren't a growth center, meaning that scanning them and determining their status is for the most part useless, except for the midpalatal suture (one that is a little bit important!)
i. Midpalatal Suture
View attachment 4297717
Here are graphics (I) and CBCT Scans (II) of your midpalatal suture.
Figure A is a young child, 10-12 years old, then onto Figure B where the child is 11-13, C where they’re 13-15, D representing a 15-19 year old, and E representing a fully fused midpalatal suture of a fully grown person, usually 19-20+ years old.
If you still see a line on your scan, your suture is not fused. If you do not see any line on your scan, it’s fused.
Your midpalatal suture begins fusing from the back, so the line you do see will get shorter & shorter until eventually it matures and fuses completely.
Clinically speaking the only significant thing you need to take away from your scans are if your midpalatal suture is fused or not, around the ages of 15-19 you’ll likely have this scan done by your ortho if you’re considering getting a palate expander of any kind.
If it is fused, then you’ll likely be assigned a SARME, SARPE or SAMARPE for your expansion ( Note that this will not mean your zygos become wider, or any extreme external aesthetic benefit, your palate will get wider. ) whereas if it’s not fused, you’ll typically be assigned a regular mse / expander.
ii. Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures.
Before joining this forum I was super active in many looksmaxing discord servers, where I noticed people believing Sutures worked similarly to growth plates.
I’m not saying you believe this, I’m adding this section to clear up misconceptions.
Your sutures are not growth centers, they do not grow & just because your sutures are open doesn’t mean they’ll grow.
The status of your sutures simply shows if the area will respond to growth or not.
If your sutures are closed, no you won’t grow anymore, but just because they’re open doesn’t mean they’ll grow, so even if you notice all your sutures are open, your growth still might be over.
iii. Nasal Septal Cartilage
As opposed to Sutures, The Nasal Septal Cartilage is a growth center, meaning its made of the same Hyaline cartilage that your growth plates are made of.
View attachment 4297722
This area is mainly responsible for growing your midface forward, or downwards (oh no!).
Now, the moment this cartilage stops growing, the development of your midface stops aswell.
This is cartilage, meaning it doesn’t show up xrays, or CT/CBCT Scans, the only place you can actually see it is on MRI’s, but there’s literally no way you can bullshit your way into getting an MRI, especially for something like this.
Now the typical method to determine this is actually through lefthand xrays, hyaline cartilage ossifying is systematic, which is why you can check your knee or your wrist to determine your growth plate status, and not have to check both or prioritize one of them.
It’s as simple as this, if the growth plates in your wrist or knee are fused (see Chapter 1 of this guide to determine that), then your nasal septal cartilage has also ossified and completed its work. (Most of the time, after one growth site in your body has ossified, the others follow suit within the next few months, not enough time to get any significant growth anyways).
3. How to estimate your bone age. (Better than ChatGPT)
In my personal experience experimenting with this method, my estimates have beaten chatgpt 3/3 times.
I’m not an experienced radiologist, and asking chatgpt is the only other option for users to estimate their bone age without going to a radiologist (This isn’t to replace a radiologist’s rating, this is for an at-home analysis)
The method we’re going to be using is the Tanner-Whitehouse 3, Radius-Ulna-Short Bones method. For simplicity’s sake I’ll refer to it as the TW3-RUS method from now on.
The typical margin of error using this method is 6-9 months, although during puberty this can differ up to over a year since people can have unpredictable and uneven growth spurts.
TW3-RUS is the most refined and as of today the best method for estimating bone age.
To continue with this method & estimate your own bone age, you’ll need an xray of your non dominant hand, including your wrist. We’re going to be evaluating a total of 13 bones.
I’ve worked my ass off to create the following reference sheets, so here’s what you’re going to do with them.
I added references for stages A (Completely unfused), E-F (Partial fusion, basically late stages of puberty), and I (Complete Fusion)
You will have to eyeball this now using your own xrays, I’ve given three examples and some wiggle-room for letters using a reference bar (green-red) below the image, write down your estimated guesses in a text file until you finish all 13 bones.
Don’t doubt yourself, eyeballing isn’t perfect but it still works well, just choose & continue.
Ex.
“My Radius looks more fused than the image from E-F, but its not as fused as I, it’s closer to the 2nd picture though, so I’ll rate it G” And continue
Bonetype: Radius (distal end)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: Ulna (distal end)
View attachment 4297727
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Metacarpal (thumb)
View attachment 4297729
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Metacarpal (middle finger)
View attachment 4297731
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Metacarpal (pinky)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297736
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297737
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297738
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297739
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297741
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Distal Phalanx (thumb)
View attachment 4297742
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Distal Phalanx (middle finger)
View attachment 4297743
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Distal Phalanx (pinky)
View attachment 4297744
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
There you go, it wasn’t that hard was it?
Now that you’ve got your letters written down, it should look something like this:
Radius = H, Ulna = G
1st MC = I, 3rd MC = I, 5th MC = H
1st PProx = I, 3rd PProx = I, 5th PProx = H
3rd PMid = H, 5th PMid = G
1st PDist = I, 3rd PDist = H, 5th PDist = H
( You should have labeled them ideally, and the letters will vary )
Now convert these letters into numerical value ( TW3-RUS Score )
View attachment 4297753
For each letter you should assign points per bone, then calculate the total by combining all of the points
Total TW3-RUS Score Estimated Bone age ( male ) Estimated Bone age ( female ) 400 9 Years 6 Months 9 Years 3 Months 425 10 Years 3 Months 9 Years 9 Months 450 11 Years 0 Months 10 Years 0 Months 475 11 Years 6 Months 11 Years 0 Months 500 12 Years 3 Months 12 Years 0 Months 525 12 Years 9 Months 12 Years 6 Months 550 13 Years 3 Months 13 Years 0 Months 575 13 Years 9 Months 13 Years 6 Months 600 14 Years 3 Months 14 Years 0 Months
625 14 Years 9 Months 14 Years 6 Months 650 15 Years 3 Months 15 Years 0 Months 675 15 Years 9 Months 15 Years 6 Months 700 16 Years 3 Months 15 Years 9 Months 725 16 Years 9 Months 16 Years 0 Months 750 17 Years 3 Months 16 Years 3 Months 775 17 Years 9 Months 16 Years 9 Months 800 18 Years 17 Years 0 Months
There’s your bone age within a 6-9 month range. You can consider adding another slight margin of error since you’re not an experienced radiologist & don’t have experience reading these.
Bone age = chronological age = normal growth tempo ( You’ll grow normally )
Bone age < chronological age = delayed skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow more )
Bone age > chronological age = advanced skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow less )
If you want to practice & get better at this, I’ve left a link to a 10gb dataset of left hand xrays (with the correct result bone age assigned) as a link below
I hope this helped, and I hope I didn’t annihilate your dreams of growing taller
Lefthand Xrays used for graphics & Depictions:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kmader/rsna-bone-age?select=boneage-training-dataset.csv
I used these images from the dataset for my examples:
10982.png, 1498.png, 1387.png, 10552.png, 1934.png
I also used Assessment of skeletal maturity and prediction of adult height (TW3 method) [ Book ]
By J.M. Tanner
You do not want to know how difficult it was to get information out of this book. Fucking lost media.
Tags: @BigBallsLarry @Quncho @aids @ybuyhgui @chadisbeingmade
( I won’t be tagging my off-topic friends for guides like these, sorry guys. )
i love you pookie i'm so proud of you.The Radiology behind Facial Development & Bodily Growth Indicators
By @Orka
I've seen at least 50 questions asking if somebody's growth plates are still open or not, or to estimate their bone age,so to make it easy, here's how you can answer your own questions!
Table Of Contents (easiest to hardest)
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
- What are growth plates?
- Analysis of your wrist’s growth plate
- Analysis of your knee’s growth plate
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
- Midpalatal Suture
- Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures in your face
- Nasal Septal Cartilage
3. How to estimate bone age
- An Introduction to TW3-RUS
- Where to look & how to determine sizes [ Custom reference sheets ]
- Process walkthrough & conclusion
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
A growth plate (or an Epiphyseal plate) is a region of cartilage near the ends of long bones in children and adolescents where new bone tissue is created, causing the bone to grow in length and width.
This process continues until adolescence, when the growth plates harden into solid bone, a process called "closing" or “fusing”.
Male growth plates tend to fuse at around 16-19, once your plates have fused/closed, they will not grow any longer or wider.
Now, to find out if your growth plates are fused or not, we’re going to look at your wrist & knees for your height, and at your clavicles for your frame.
View attachment 4297716
Above I've added 3 figures, from open ( A ) to fully fused ( C ), those are your growth plates, if theres a visible line like in B, they’re still open, but closer to fusion. ( You will typically see this in X-rays of teenagers). Whereas if you don’t see any lines at all, it means the cartilage has hardened into solid bone, ending any growth potential.
View attachment 4297802
Once again, refer to the graphic above.
If there’s a visible gap or a full line, your growth plates are open, if there’s no visible line, they’re closed.
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
The most important sutures when it comes to facial development are your Midpalatal, Frontomaxillary, Zygomatomaxillary & Pterygopalatine Sutures, but in reality your sutures aren't a growth center, meaning that scanning them and determining their status is for the most part useless, except for the midpalatal suture (one that is a little bit important!)
i. Midpalatal Suture
View attachment 4297717
Here are graphics (I) and CBCT Scans (II) of your midpalatal suture.
Figure A is a young child, 10-12 years old, then onto Figure B where the child is 11-13, C where they’re 13-15, D representing a 15-19 year old, and E representing a fully fused midpalatal suture of a fully grown person, usually 19-20+ years old.
If you still see a line on your scan, your suture is not fused. If you do not see any line on your scan, it’s fused.
Your midpalatal suture begins fusing from the back, so the line you do see will get shorter & shorter until eventually it matures and fuses completely.
Clinically speaking the only significant thing you need to take away from your scans are if your midpalatal suture is fused or not, around the ages of 15-19 you’ll likely have this scan done by your ortho if you’re considering getting a palate expander of any kind.
If it is fused, then you’ll likely be assigned a SARME, SARPE or SAMARPE for your expansion ( Note that this will not mean your zygos become wider, or any extreme external aesthetic benefit, your palate will get wider. ) whereas if it’s not fused, you’ll typically be assigned a regular mse / expander.
ii. Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures.
Before joining this forum I was super active in many looksmaxing discord servers, where I noticed people believing Sutures worked similarly to growth plates.
I’m not saying you believe this, I’m adding this section to clear up misconceptions.
Your sutures are not growth centers, they do not grow & just because your sutures are open doesn’t mean they’ll grow.
The status of your sutures simply shows if the area will respond to growth or not.
If your sutures are closed, no you won’t grow anymore, but just because they’re open doesn’t mean they’ll grow, so even if you notice all your sutures are open, your growth still might be over.
iii. Nasal Septal Cartilage
As opposed to Sutures, The Nasal Septal Cartilage is a growth center, meaning its made of the same Hyaline cartilage that your growth plates are made of.
View attachment 4297722
This area is mainly responsible for growing your midface forward, or downwards (oh no!).
Now, the moment this cartilage stops growing, the development of your midface stops aswell.
This is cartilage, meaning it doesn’t show up xrays, or CT/CBCT Scans, the only place you can actually see it is on MRI’s, but there’s literally no way you can bullshit your way into getting an MRI, especially for something like this.
Now the typical method to determine this is actually through lefthand xrays, hyaline cartilage ossifying is systematic, which is why you can check your knee or your wrist to determine your growth plate status, and not have to check both or prioritize one of them.
It’s as simple as this, if the growth plates in your wrist or knee are fused (see Chapter 1 of this guide to determine that), then your nasal septal cartilage has also ossified and completed its work. (Most of the time, after one growth site in your body has ossified, the others follow suit within the next few months, not enough time to get any significant growth anyways).
3. How to estimate your bone age. (Better than ChatGPT)
In my personal experience experimenting with this method, my estimates have beaten chatgpt 3/3 times.
I’m not an experienced radiologist, and asking chatgpt is the only other option for users to estimate their bone age without going to a radiologist (This isn’t to replace a radiologist’s rating, this is for an at-home analysis)
The method we’re going to be using is the Tanner-Whitehouse 3, Radius-Ulna-Short Bones method. For simplicity’s sake I’ll refer to it as the TW3-RUS method from now on.
The typical margin of error using this method is 6-9 months, although during puberty this can differ up to over a year since people can have unpredictable and uneven growth spurts.
TW3-RUS is the most refined and as of today the best method for estimating bone age.
To continue with this method & estimate your own bone age, you’ll need an xray of your non dominant hand, including your wrist. We’re going to be evaluating a total of 13 bones.
I’ve worked my ass off to create the following reference sheets, so here’s what you’re going to do with them.
I added references for stages A (Completely unfused), E-F (Partial fusion, basically late stages of puberty), and I (Complete Fusion)
You will have to eyeball this now using your own xrays, I’ve given three examples and some wiggle-room for letters using a reference bar (green-red) below the image, write down your estimated guesses in a text file until you finish all 13 bones.
Don’t doubt yourself, eyeballing isn’t perfect but it still works well, just choose & continue.
Ex.
“My Radius looks more fused than the image from E-F, but its not as fused as I, it’s closer to the 2nd picture though, so I’ll rate it G” And continue
Bonetype: Radius (distal end)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: Ulna (distal end)
View attachment 4297727
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Metacarpal (thumb)
View attachment 4297729
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Metacarpal (middle finger)
View attachment 4297731
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Metacarpal (pinky)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297736
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297737
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297738
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297739
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297741
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Distal Phalanx (thumb)
View attachment 4297742
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Distal Phalanx (middle finger)
View attachment 4297743
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Distal Phalanx (pinky)
View attachment 4297744
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
There you go, it wasn’t that hard was it?
Now that you’ve got your letters written down, it should look something like this:
Radius = H, Ulna = G
1st MC = I, 3rd MC = I, 5th MC = H
1st PProx = I, 3rd PProx = I, 5th PProx = H
3rd PMid = H, 5th PMid = G
1st PDist = I, 3rd PDist = H, 5th PDist = H
( You should have labeled them ideally, and the letters will vary )
Now convert these letters into numerical value ( TW3-RUS Score )
View attachment 4297753
For each letter you should assign points per bone, then calculate the total by combining all of the points
Total TW3-RUS Score Estimated Bone age ( male ) Estimated Bone age ( female ) 400 9 Years 6 Months 9 Years 3 Months 425 10 Years 3 Months 9 Years 9 Months 450 11 Years 0 Months 10 Years 0 Months 475 11 Years 6 Months 11 Years 0 Months 500 12 Years 3 Months 12 Years 0 Months 525 12 Years 9 Months 12 Years 6 Months 550 13 Years 3 Months 13 Years 0 Months 575 13 Years 9 Months 13 Years 6 Months 600 14 Years 3 Months 14 Years 0 Months
625 14 Years 9 Months 14 Years 6 Months 650 15 Years 3 Months 15 Years 0 Months 675 15 Years 9 Months 15 Years 6 Months 700 16 Years 3 Months 15 Years 9 Months 725 16 Years 9 Months 16 Years 0 Months 750 17 Years 3 Months 16 Years 3 Months 775 17 Years 9 Months 16 Years 9 Months 800 18 Years 17 Years 0 Months
There’s your bone age within a 6-9 month range. You can consider adding another slight margin of error since you’re not an experienced radiologist & don’t have experience reading these.
Bone age = chronological age = normal growth tempo ( You’ll grow normally )
Bone age < chronological age = delayed skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow more )
Bone age > chronological age = advanced skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow less )
If you want to practice & get better at this, I’ve left a link to a 10gb dataset of left hand xrays (with the correct result bone age assigned) as a link below
I hope this helped, and I hope I didn’t annihilate your dreams of growing taller
Lefthand Xrays used for graphics & Depictions:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kmader/rsna-bone-age?select=boneage-training-dataset.csv
I used these images from the dataset for my examples:
10982.png, 1498.png, 1387.png, 10552.png, 1934.png
I also used Assessment of skeletal maturity and prediction of adult height (TW3 method) [ Book ]
By J.M. Tanner
You do not want to know how difficult it was to get information out of this book. Fucking lost media.
Tags: @BigBallsLarry @Quncho @aids @ybuyhgui @chadisbeingmade
( I won’t be tagging my off-topic friends for guides like these, sorry guys. )
PeakkThe Radiology behind Facial Development & Bodily Growth Indicators
By @Orka
I've seen at least 50 questions asking if somebody's growth plates are still open or not, or to estimate their bone age,so to make it easy, here's how you can answer your own questions!
Table Of Contents (easiest to hardest)
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
- What are growth plates?
- Analysis of your wrist’s growth plate
- Analysis of your knee’s growth plate
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
- Midpalatal Suture
- Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures in your face
- Nasal Septal Cartilage
3. How to estimate bone age
- An Introduction to TW3-RUS
- Where to look & how to determine sizes [ Custom reference sheets ]
- Process walkthrough & conclusion
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
A growth plate (or an Epiphyseal plate) is a region of cartilage near the ends of long bones in children and adolescents where new bone tissue is created, causing the bone to grow in length and width.
This process continues until adolescence, when the growth plates harden into solid bone, a process called "closing" or “fusing”.
Male growth plates tend to fuse at around 16-19, once your plates have fused/closed, they will not grow any longer or wider.
Now, to find out if your growth plates are fused or not, we’re going to look at your wrist & knees for your height, and at your clavicles for your frame.
View attachment 4297716
Above I've added 3 figures, from open ( A ) to fully fused ( C ), those are your growth plates, if theres a visible line like in B, they’re still open, but closer to fusion. ( You will typically see this in X-rays of teenagers). Whereas if you don’t see any lines at all, it means the cartilage has hardened into solid bone, ending any growth potential.
View attachment 4297802
Once again, refer to the graphic above.
If there’s a visible gap or a full line, your growth plates are open, if there’s no visible line, they’re closed.
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
The most important sutures when it comes to facial development are your Midpalatal, Frontomaxillary, Zygomatomaxillary & Pterygopalatine Sutures, but in reality your sutures aren't a growth center, meaning that scanning them and determining their status is for the most part useless, except for the midpalatal suture (one that is a little bit important!)
i. Midpalatal Suture
View attachment 4297717
Here are graphics (I) and CBCT Scans (II) of your midpalatal suture.
Figure A is a young child, 10-12 years old, then onto Figure B where the child is 11-13, C where they’re 13-15, D representing a 15-19 year old, and E representing a fully fused midpalatal suture of a fully grown person, usually 19-20+ years old.
If you still see a line on your scan, your suture is not fused. If you do not see any line on your scan, it’s fused.
Your midpalatal suture begins fusing from the back, so the line you do see will get shorter & shorter until eventually it matures and fuses completely.
Clinically speaking the only significant thing you need to take away from your scans are if your midpalatal suture is fused or not, around the ages of 15-19 you’ll likely have this scan done by your ortho if you’re considering getting a palate expander of any kind.
If it is fused, then you’ll likely be assigned a SARME, SARPE or SAMARPE for your expansion ( Note that this will not mean your zygos become wider, or any extreme external aesthetic benefit, your palate will get wider. ) whereas if it’s not fused, you’ll typically be assigned a regular mse / expander.
ii. Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures.
Before joining this forum I was super active in many looksmaxing discord servers, where I noticed people believing Sutures worked similarly to growth plates.
I’m not saying you believe this, I’m adding this section to clear up misconceptions.
Your sutures are not growth centers, they do not grow & just because your sutures are open doesn’t mean they’ll grow.
The status of your sutures simply shows if the area will respond to growth or not.
If your sutures are closed, no you won’t grow anymore, but just because they’re open doesn’t mean they’ll grow, so even if you notice all your sutures are open, your growth still might be over.
iii. Nasal Septal Cartilage
As opposed to Sutures, The Nasal Septal Cartilage is a growth center, meaning its made of the same Hyaline cartilage that your growth plates are made of.
View attachment 4297722
This area is mainly responsible for growing your midface forward, or downwards (oh no!).
Now, the moment this cartilage stops growing, the development of your midface stops aswell.
This is cartilage, meaning it doesn’t show up xrays, or CT/CBCT Scans, the only place you can actually see it is on MRI’s, but there’s literally no way you can bullshit your way into getting an MRI, especially for something like this.
Now the typical method to determine this is actually through lefthand xrays, hyaline cartilage ossifying is systematic, which is why you can check your knee or your wrist to determine your growth plate status, and not have to check both or prioritize one of them.
It’s as simple as this, if the growth plates in your wrist or knee are fused (see Chapter 1 of this guide to determine that), then your nasal septal cartilage has also ossified and completed its work. (Most of the time, after one growth site in your body has ossified, the others follow suit within the next few months, not enough time to get any significant growth anyways).
3. How to estimate your bone age. (Better than ChatGPT)
In my personal experience experimenting with this method, my estimates have beaten chatgpt 3/3 times.
I’m not an experienced radiologist, and asking chatgpt is the only other option for users to estimate their bone age without going to a radiologist (This isn’t to replace a radiologist’s rating, this is for an at-home analysis)
The method we’re going to be using is the Tanner-Whitehouse 3, Radius-Ulna-Short Bones method. For simplicity’s sake I’ll refer to it as the TW3-RUS method from now on.
The typical margin of error using this method is 6-9 months, although during puberty this can differ up to over a year since people can have unpredictable and uneven growth spurts.
TW3-RUS is the most refined and as of today the best method for estimating bone age.
To continue with this method & estimate your own bone age, you’ll need an xray of your non dominant hand, including your wrist. We’re going to be evaluating a total of 13 bones.
I’ve worked my ass off to create the following reference sheets, so here’s what you’re going to do with them.
I added references for stages A (Completely unfused), E-F (Partial fusion, basically late stages of puberty), and I (Complete Fusion)
You will have to eyeball this now using your own xrays, I’ve given three examples and some wiggle-room for letters using a reference bar (green-red) below the image, write down your estimated guesses in a text file until you finish all 13 bones.
Don’t doubt yourself, eyeballing isn’t perfect but it still works well, just choose & continue.
Ex.
“My Radius looks more fused than the image from E-F, but its not as fused as I, it’s closer to the 2nd picture though, so I’ll rate it G” And continue
Bonetype: Radius (distal end)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: Ulna (distal end)
View attachment 4297727
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Metacarpal (thumb)
View attachment 4297729
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Metacarpal (middle finger)
View attachment 4297731
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Metacarpal (pinky)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297736
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297737
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297738
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297739
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297741
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Distal Phalanx (thumb)
View attachment 4297742
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Distal Phalanx (middle finger)
View attachment 4297743
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Distal Phalanx (pinky)
View attachment 4297744
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
There you go, it wasn’t that hard was it?
Now that you’ve got your letters written down, it should look something like this:
Radius = H, Ulna = G
1st MC = I, 3rd MC = I, 5th MC = H
1st PProx = I, 3rd PProx = I, 5th PProx = H
3rd PMid = H, 5th PMid = G
1st PDist = I, 3rd PDist = H, 5th PDist = H
( You should have labeled them ideally, and the letters will vary )
Now convert these letters into numerical value ( TW3-RUS Score )
View attachment 4297753
For each letter you should assign points per bone, then calculate the total by combining all of the points
Total TW3-RUS Score Estimated Bone age ( male ) Estimated Bone age ( female ) 400 9 Years 6 Months 9 Years 3 Months 425 10 Years 3 Months 9 Years 9 Months 450 11 Years 0 Months 10 Years 0 Months 475 11 Years 6 Months 11 Years 0 Months 500 12 Years 3 Months 12 Years 0 Months 525 12 Years 9 Months 12 Years 6 Months 550 13 Years 3 Months 13 Years 0 Months 575 13 Years 9 Months 13 Years 6 Months 600 14 Years 3 Months 14 Years 0 Months
625 14 Years 9 Months 14 Years 6 Months 650 15 Years 3 Months 15 Years 0 Months 675 15 Years 9 Months 15 Years 6 Months 700 16 Years 3 Months 15 Years 9 Months 725 16 Years 9 Months 16 Years 0 Months 750 17 Years 3 Months 16 Years 3 Months 775 17 Years 9 Months 16 Years 9 Months 800 18 Years 17 Years 0 Months
There’s your bone age within a 6-9 month range. You can consider adding another slight margin of error since you’re not an experienced radiologist & don’t have experience reading these.
Bone age = chronological age = normal growth tempo ( You’ll grow normally )
Bone age < chronological age = delayed skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow more )
Bone age > chronological age = advanced skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow less )
If you want to practice & get better at this, I’ve left a link to a 10gb dataset of left hand xrays (with the correct result bone age assigned) as a link below
I hope this helped, and I hope I didn’t annihilate your dreams of growing taller
Lefthand Xrays used for graphics & Depictions:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kmader/rsna-bone-age?select=boneage-training-dataset.csv
I used these images from the dataset for my examples:
10982.png, 1498.png, 1387.png, 10552.png, 1934.png
I also used Assessment of skeletal maturity and prediction of adult height (TW3 method) [ Book ]
By J.M. Tanner
You do not want to know how difficult it was to get information out of this book. Fucking lost media.
Tags: @BigBallsLarry @Quncho @aids @ybuyhgui @chadisbeingmade
( I won’t be tagging my off-topic friends for guides like these, sorry guys. )
BOTB as always love it brothaThe Radiology behind Facial Development & Bodily Growth Indicators
By @Orka
I've seen at least 50 questions asking if somebody's growth plates are still open or not, or to estimate their bone age,so to make it easy, here's how you can answer your own questions!
Table Of Contents (easiest to hardest)
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
- What are growth plates?
- Analysis of your wrist’s growth plate
- Analysis of your knee’s growth plate
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
- Midpalatal Suture
- Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures in your face
- Nasal Septal Cartilage
3. How to estimate bone age
- An Introduction to TW3-RUS
- Where to look & how to determine sizes [ Custom reference sheets ]
- Process walkthrough & conclusion
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
A growth plate (or an Epiphyseal plate) is a region of cartilage near the ends of long bones in children and adolescents where new bone tissue is created, causing the bone to grow in length and width.
This process continues until adolescence, when the growth plates harden into solid bone, a process called "closing" or “fusing”.
Male growth plates tend to fuse at around 16-19, once your plates have fused/closed, they will not grow any longer or wider.
Now, to find out if your growth plates are fused or not, we’re going to look at your wrist & knees for your height, and at your clavicles for your frame.
View attachment 4297716
Above I've added 3 figures, from open ( A ) to fully fused ( C ), those are your growth plates, if theres a visible line like in B, they’re still open, but closer to fusion. ( You will typically see this in X-rays of teenagers). Whereas if you don’t see any lines at all, it means the cartilage has hardened into solid bone, ending any growth potential.
View attachment 4297802
Once again, refer to the graphic above.
If there’s a visible gap or a full line, your growth plates are open, if there’s no visible line, they’re closed.
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
The most important sutures when it comes to facial development are your Midpalatal, Frontomaxillary, Zygomatomaxillary & Pterygopalatine Sutures, but in reality your sutures aren't a growth center, meaning that scanning them and determining their status is for the most part useless, except for the midpalatal suture (one that is a little bit important!)
i. Midpalatal Suture
View attachment 4297717
Here are graphics (I) and CBCT Scans (II) of your midpalatal suture.
Figure A is a young child, 10-12 years old, then onto Figure B where the child is 11-13, C where they’re 13-15, D representing a 15-19 year old, and E representing a fully fused midpalatal suture of a fully grown person, usually 19-20+ years old.
If you still see a line on your scan, your suture is not fused. If you do not see any line on your scan, it’s fused.
Your midpalatal suture begins fusing from the back, so the line you do see will get shorter & shorter until eventually it matures and fuses completely.
Clinically speaking the only significant thing you need to take away from your scans are if your midpalatal suture is fused or not, around the ages of 15-19 you’ll likely have this scan done by your ortho if you’re considering getting a palate expander of any kind.
If it is fused, then you’ll likely be assigned a SARME, SARPE or SAMARPE for your expansion ( Note that this will not mean your zygos become wider, or any extreme external aesthetic benefit, your palate will get wider. ) whereas if it’s not fused, you’ll typically be assigned a regular mse / expander.
ii. Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures.
Before joining this forum I was super active in many looksmaxing discord servers, where I noticed people believing Sutures worked similarly to growth plates.
I’m not saying you believe this, I’m adding this section to clear up misconceptions.
Your sutures are not growth centers, they do not grow & just because your sutures are open doesn’t mean they’ll grow.
The status of your sutures simply shows if the area will respond to growth or not.
If your sutures are closed, no you won’t grow anymore, but just because they’re open doesn’t mean they’ll grow, so even if you notice all your sutures are open, your growth still might be over.
iii. Nasal Septal Cartilage
As opposed to Sutures, The Nasal Septal Cartilage is a growth center, meaning its made of the same Hyaline cartilage that your growth plates are made of.
View attachment 4297722
This area is mainly responsible for growing your midface forward, or downwards (oh no!).
Now, the moment this cartilage stops growing, the development of your midface stops aswell.
This is cartilage, meaning it doesn’t show up xrays, or CT/CBCT Scans, the only place you can actually see it is on MRI’s, but there’s literally no way you can bullshit your way into getting an MRI, especially for something like this.
Now the typical method to determine this is actually through lefthand xrays, hyaline cartilage ossifying is systematic, which is why you can check your knee or your wrist to determine your growth plate status, and not have to check both or prioritize one of them.
It’s as simple as this, if the growth plates in your wrist or knee are fused (see Chapter 1 of this guide to determine that), then your nasal septal cartilage has also ossified and completed its work. (Most of the time, after one growth site in your body has ossified, the others follow suit within the next few months, not enough time to get any significant growth anyways).
3. How to estimate your bone age. (Better than ChatGPT)
In my personal experience experimenting with this method, my estimates have beaten chatgpt 3/3 times.
I’m not an experienced radiologist, and asking chatgpt is the only other option for users to estimate their bone age without going to a radiologist (This isn’t to replace a radiologist’s rating, this is for an at-home analysis)
The method we’re going to be using is the Tanner-Whitehouse 3, Radius-Ulna-Short Bones method. For simplicity’s sake I’ll refer to it as the TW3-RUS method from now on.
The typical margin of error using this method is 6-9 months, although during puberty this can differ up to over a year since people can have unpredictable and uneven growth spurts.
TW3-RUS is the most refined and as of today the best method for estimating bone age.
To continue with this method & estimate your own bone age, you’ll need an xray of your non dominant hand, including your wrist. We’re going to be evaluating a total of 13 bones.
I’ve worked my ass off to create the following reference sheets, so here’s what you’re going to do with them.
I added references for stages A (Completely unfused), E-F (Partial fusion, basically late stages of puberty), and I (Complete Fusion)
You will have to eyeball this now using your own xrays, I’ve given three examples and some wiggle-room for letters using a reference bar (green-red) below the image, write down your estimated guesses in a text file until you finish all 13 bones.
Don’t doubt yourself, eyeballing isn’t perfect but it still works well, just choose & continue.
Ex.
“My Radius looks more fused than the image from E-F, but its not as fused as I, it’s closer to the 2nd picture though, so I’ll rate it G” And continue
Bonetype: Radius (distal end)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: Ulna (distal end)
View attachment 4297727
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Metacarpal (thumb)
View attachment 4297729
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Metacarpal (middle finger)
View attachment 4297731
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Metacarpal (pinky)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297736
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297737
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297738
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297739
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297741
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Distal Phalanx (thumb)
View attachment 4297742
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Distal Phalanx (middle finger)
View attachment 4297743
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Distal Phalanx (pinky)
View attachment 4297744
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
There you go, it wasn’t that hard was it?
Now that you’ve got your letters written down, it should look something like this:
Radius = H, Ulna = G
1st MC = I, 3rd MC = I, 5th MC = H
1st PProx = I, 3rd PProx = I, 5th PProx = H
3rd PMid = H, 5th PMid = G
1st PDist = I, 3rd PDist = H, 5th PDist = H
( You should have labeled them ideally, and the letters will vary )
Now convert these letters into numerical value ( TW3-RUS Score )
View attachment 4297753
For each letter you should assign points per bone, then calculate the total by combining all of the points
Total TW3-RUS Score Estimated Bone age ( male ) Estimated Bone age ( female ) 400 9 Years 6 Months 9 Years 3 Months 425 10 Years 3 Months 9 Years 9 Months 450 11 Years 0 Months 10 Years 0 Months 475 11 Years 6 Months 11 Years 0 Months 500 12 Years 3 Months 12 Years 0 Months 525 12 Years 9 Months 12 Years 6 Months 550 13 Years 3 Months 13 Years 0 Months 575 13 Years 9 Months 13 Years 6 Months 600 14 Years 3 Months 14 Years 0 Months
625 14 Years 9 Months 14 Years 6 Months 650 15 Years 3 Months 15 Years 0 Months 675 15 Years 9 Months 15 Years 6 Months 700 16 Years 3 Months 15 Years 9 Months 725 16 Years 9 Months 16 Years 0 Months 750 17 Years 3 Months 16 Years 3 Months 775 17 Years 9 Months 16 Years 9 Months 800 18 Years 17 Years 0 Months
There’s your bone age within a 6-9 month range. You can consider adding another slight margin of error since you’re not an experienced radiologist & don’t have experience reading these.
Bone age = chronological age = normal growth tempo ( You’ll grow normally )
Bone age < chronological age = delayed skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow more )
Bone age > chronological age = advanced skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow less )
If you want to practice & get better at this, I’ve left a link to a 10gb dataset of left hand xrays (with the correct result bone age assigned) as a link below
I hope this helped, and I hope I didn’t annihilate your dreams of growing taller
Lefthand Xrays used for graphics & Depictions:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kmader/rsna-bone-age?select=boneage-training-dataset.csv
I used these images from the dataset for my examples:
10982.png, 1498.png, 1387.png, 10552.png, 1934.png
I also used Assessment of skeletal maturity and prediction of adult height (TW3 method) [ Book ]
By J.M. Tanner
You do not want to know how difficult it was to get information out of this book. Fucking lost media.
Tags: @BigBallsLarry @Quncho @aids @ybuyhgui @chadisbeingmade
( I won’t be tagging my off-topic friends for guides like these, sorry guys. )
sounds great!
mirin the sticky brah, but imo there should be another copy perma sticked in the looksmaxxing questions section as thats where these kind of questions are usually asked inThe Radiology behind Facial Development & Bodily Growth Indicators
By @Orka
I've seen at least 50 questions asking if somebody's growth plates are still open or not, or to estimate their bone age,so to make it easy, here's how you can answer your own questions!
Table Of Contents (easiest to hardest)
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
- What are growth plates?
- Analysis of your wrist’s growth plate
- Analysis of your knee’s growth plate
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
- Midpalatal Suture
- Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures in your face
- Nasal Septal Cartilage
3. How to estimate bone age
- An Introduction to TW3-RUS
- Where to look & how to determine sizes [ Custom reference sheets ]
- Process walkthrough & conclusion
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
A growth plate (or an Epiphyseal plate) is a region of cartilage near the ends of long bones in children and adolescents where new bone tissue is created, causing the bone to grow in length and width.
This process continues until adolescence, when the growth plates harden into solid bone, a process called "closing" or “fusing”.
Male growth plates tend to fuse at around 16-19, once your plates have fused/closed, they will not grow any longer or wider.
Now, to find out if your growth plates are fused or not, we’re going to look at your wrist & knees for your height, and at your clavicles for your frame.
View attachment 4297716
Above I've added 3 figures, from open ( A ) to fully fused ( C ), those are your growth plates, if theres a visible line like in B, they’re still open, but closer to fusion. ( You will typically see this in X-rays of teenagers). Whereas if you don’t see any lines at all, it means the cartilage has hardened into solid bone, ending any growth potential.
View attachment 4297802
Once again, refer to the graphic above.
If there’s a visible gap or a full line, your growth plates are open, if there’s no visible line, they’re closed.
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
The most important sutures when it comes to facial development are your Midpalatal, Frontomaxillary, Zygomatomaxillary & Pterygopalatine Sutures, but in reality your sutures aren't a growth center, meaning that scanning them and determining their status is for the most part useless, except for the midpalatal suture (one that is a little bit important!)
i. Midpalatal Suture
View attachment 4297717
Here are graphics (I) and CBCT Scans (II) of your midpalatal suture.
Figure A is a young child, 10-12 years old, then onto Figure B where the child is 11-13, C where they’re 13-15, D representing a 15-19 year old, and E representing a fully fused midpalatal suture of a fully grown person, usually 19-20+ years old.
If you still see a line on your scan, your suture is not fused. If you do not see any line on your scan, it’s fused.
Your midpalatal suture begins fusing from the back, so the line you do see will get shorter & shorter until eventually it matures and fuses completely.
Clinically speaking the only significant thing you need to take away from your scans are if your midpalatal suture is fused or not, around the ages of 15-19 you’ll likely have this scan done by your ortho if you’re considering getting a palate expander of any kind.
If it is fused, then you’ll likely be assigned a SARME, SARPE or SAMARPE for your expansion ( Note that this will not mean your zygos become wider, or any extreme external aesthetic benefit, your palate will get wider. ) whereas if it’s not fused, you’ll typically be assigned a regular mse / expander.
ii. Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures.
Before joining this forum I was super active in many looksmaxing discord servers, where I noticed people believing Sutures worked similarly to growth plates.
I’m not saying you believe this, I’m adding this section to clear up misconceptions.
Your sutures are not growth centers, they do not grow & just because your sutures are open doesn’t mean they’ll grow.
The status of your sutures simply shows if the area will respond to growth or not.
If your sutures are closed, no you won’t grow anymore, but just because they’re open doesn’t mean they’ll grow, so even if you notice all your sutures are open, your growth still might be over.
iii. Nasal Septal Cartilage
As opposed to Sutures, The Nasal Septal Cartilage is a growth center, meaning its made of the same Hyaline cartilage that your growth plates are made of.
View attachment 4297722
This area is mainly responsible for growing your midface forward, or downwards (oh no!).
Now, the moment this cartilage stops growing, the development of your midface stops aswell.
This is cartilage, meaning it doesn’t show up xrays, or CT/CBCT Scans, the only place you can actually see it is on MRI’s, but there’s literally no way you can bullshit your way into getting an MRI, especially for something like this.
Now the typical method to determine this is actually through lefthand xrays, hyaline cartilage ossifying is systematic, which is why you can check your knee or your wrist to determine your growth plate status, and not have to check both or prioritize one of them.
It’s as simple as this, if the growth plates in your wrist or knee are fused (see Chapter 1 of this guide to determine that), then your nasal septal cartilage has also ossified and completed its work. (Most of the time, after one growth site in your body has ossified, the others follow suit within the next few months, not enough time to get any significant growth anyways).
3. How to estimate your bone age. (Better than ChatGPT)
In my personal experience experimenting with this method, my estimates have beaten chatgpt 3/3 times.
I’m not an experienced radiologist, and asking chatgpt is the only other option for users to estimate their bone age without going to a radiologist (This isn’t to replace a radiologist’s rating, this is for an at-home analysis)
The method we’re going to be using is the Tanner-Whitehouse 3, Radius-Ulna-Short Bones method. For simplicity’s sake I’ll refer to it as the TW3-RUS method from now on.
The typical margin of error using this method is 6-9 months, although during puberty this can differ up to over a year since people can have unpredictable and uneven growth spurts.
TW3-RUS is the most refined and as of today the best method for estimating bone age.
To continue with this method & estimate your own bone age, you’ll need an xray of your non dominant hand, including your wrist. We’re going to be evaluating a total of 13 bones.
I’ve worked my ass off to create the following reference sheets, so here’s what you’re going to do with them.
I added references for stages A (Completely unfused), E-F (Partial fusion, basically late stages of puberty), and I (Complete Fusion)
You will have to eyeball this now using your own xrays, I’ve given three examples and some wiggle-room for letters using a reference bar (green-red) below the image, write down your estimated guesses in a text file until you finish all 13 bones.
Don’t doubt yourself, eyeballing isn’t perfect but it still works well, just choose & continue.
Ex.
“My Radius looks more fused than the image from E-F, but its not as fused as I, it’s closer to the 2nd picture though, so I’ll rate it G” And continue
Bonetype: Radius (distal end)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: Ulna (distal end)
View attachment 4297727
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Metacarpal (thumb)
View attachment 4297729
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Metacarpal (middle finger)
View attachment 4297731
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Metacarpal (pinky)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297736
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297737
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297738
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297739
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297741
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Distal Phalanx (thumb)
View attachment 4297742
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Distal Phalanx (middle finger)
View attachment 4297743
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Distal Phalanx (pinky)
View attachment 4297744
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
There you go, it wasn’t that hard was it?
Now that you’ve got your letters written down, it should look something like this:
Radius = H, Ulna = G
1st MC = I, 3rd MC = I, 5th MC = H
1st PProx = I, 3rd PProx = I, 5th PProx = H
3rd PMid = H, 5th PMid = G
1st PDist = I, 3rd PDist = H, 5th PDist = H
( You should have labeled them ideally, and the letters will vary )
Now convert these letters into numerical value ( TW3-RUS Score )
View attachment 4297753
For each letter you should assign points per bone, then calculate the total by combining all of the points
Total TW3-RUS Score Estimated Bone age ( male ) Estimated Bone age ( female ) 400 9 Years 6 Months 9 Years 3 Months 425 10 Years 3 Months 9 Years 9 Months 450 11 Years 0 Months 10 Years 0 Months 475 11 Years 6 Months 11 Years 0 Months 500 12 Years 3 Months 12 Years 0 Months 525 12 Years 9 Months 12 Years 6 Months 550 13 Years 3 Months 13 Years 0 Months 575 13 Years 9 Months 13 Years 6 Months 600 14 Years 3 Months 14 Years 0 Months
625 14 Years 9 Months 14 Years 6 Months 650 15 Years 3 Months 15 Years 0 Months 675 15 Years 9 Months 15 Years 6 Months 700 16 Years 3 Months 15 Years 9 Months 725 16 Years 9 Months 16 Years 0 Months 750 17 Years 3 Months 16 Years 3 Months 775 17 Years 9 Months 16 Years 9 Months 800 18 Years 17 Years 0 Months
There’s your bone age within a 6-9 month range. You can consider adding another slight margin of error since you’re not an experienced radiologist & don’t have experience reading these.
Bone age = chronological age = normal growth tempo ( You’ll grow normally )
Bone age < chronological age = delayed skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow more )
Bone age > chronological age = advanced skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow less )
If you want to practice & get better at this, I’ve left a link to a 10gb dataset of left hand xrays (with the correct result bone age assigned) as a link below
I hope this helped, and I hope I didn’t annihilate your dreams of growing taller
Lefthand Xrays used for graphics & Depictions:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kmader/rsna-bone-age?select=boneage-training-dataset.csv
I used these images from the dataset for my examples:
10982.png, 1498.png, 1387.png, 10552.png, 1934.png
I also used Assessment of skeletal maturity and prediction of adult height (TW3 method) [ Book ]
By J.M. Tanner
You do not want to know how difficult it was to get information out of this book. Fucking lost media.
Tags: @BigBallsLarry @Quncho @aids @ybuyhgui @chadisbeingmade
( I won’t be tagging my off-topic friends for guides like these, sorry guys. )
I get the logic behind that but for guides that's usually just the best of the best section, as Looksmaxing Questions is for questions
greys would ask go to the looksmaxxing questions section before doing a molecule of research, it would be fitting to have a perma sticky there so at least it would reduce the spamI get the logic behind that but for guides that's usually just the best of the best section, as Looksmaxing Questions is for questions
holy iqThe Radiology behind Facial Development & Bodily Growth Indicators
By @Orka
I've seen at least 50 questions asking if somebody's growth plates are still open or not, or to estimate their bone age,so to make it easy, here's how you can answer your own questions!
Table Of Contents (easiest to hardest)
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
- What are growth plates?
- Analysis of your wrist’s growth plate
- Analysis of your knee’s growth plate
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
- Midpalatal Suture
- Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures in your face
- Nasal Septal Cartilage
3. How to estimate bone age
- An Introduction to TW3-RUS
- Where to look & how to determine sizes [ Custom reference sheets ]
- Process walkthrough & conclusion
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
A growth plate (or an Epiphyseal plate) is a region of cartilage near the ends of long bones in children and adolescents where new bone tissue is created, causing the bone to grow in length and width.
This process continues until adolescence, when the growth plates harden into solid bone, a process called "closing" or “fusing”.
Male growth plates tend to fuse at around 16-19, once your plates have fused/closed, they will not grow any longer or wider.
Now, to find out if your growth plates are fused or not, we’re going to look at your wrist & knees for your height, and at your clavicles for your frame.
View attachment 4297716
Above I've added 3 figures, from open ( A ) to fully fused ( C ), those are your growth plates, if theres a visible line like in B, they’re still open, but closer to fusion. ( You will typically see this in X-rays of teenagers). Whereas if you don’t see any lines at all, it means the cartilage has hardened into solid bone, ending any growth potential.
View attachment 4297802
Once again, refer to the graphic above.
If there’s a visible gap or a full line, your growth plates are open, if there’s no visible line, they’re closed.
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
The most important sutures when it comes to facial development are your Midpalatal, Frontomaxillary, Zygomatomaxillary & Pterygopalatine Sutures, but in reality your sutures aren't a growth center, meaning that scanning them and determining their status is for the most part useless, except for the midpalatal suture (one that is a little bit important!)
i. Midpalatal Suture
View attachment 4297717
Here are graphics (I) and CBCT Scans (II) of your midpalatal suture.
Figure A is a young child, 10-12 years old, then onto Figure B where the child is 11-13, C where they’re 13-15, D representing a 15-19 year old, and E representing a fully fused midpalatal suture of a fully grown person, usually 19-20+ years old.
If you still see a line on your scan, your suture is not fused. If you do not see any line on your scan, it’s fused.
Your midpalatal suture begins fusing from the back, so the line you do see will get shorter & shorter until eventually it matures and fuses completely.
Clinically speaking the only significant thing you need to take away from your scans are if your midpalatal suture is fused or not, around the ages of 15-19 you’ll likely have this scan done by your ortho if you’re considering getting a palate expander of any kind.
If it is fused, then you’ll likely be assigned a SARME, SARPE or SAMARPE for your expansion ( Note that this will not mean your zygos become wider, or any extreme external aesthetic benefit, your palate will get wider. ) whereas if it’s not fused, you’ll typically be assigned a regular mse / expander.
ii. Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures.
Before joining this forum I was super active in many looksmaxing discord servers, where I noticed people believing Sutures worked similarly to growth plates.
I’m not saying you believe this, I’m adding this section to clear up misconceptions.
Your sutures are not growth centers, they do not grow & just because your sutures are open doesn’t mean they’ll grow.
The status of your sutures simply shows if the area will respond to growth or not.
If your sutures are closed, no you won’t grow anymore, but just because they’re open doesn’t mean they’ll grow, so even if you notice all your sutures are open, your growth still might be over.
iii. Nasal Septal Cartilage
As opposed to Sutures, The Nasal Septal Cartilage is a growth center, meaning its made of the same Hyaline cartilage that your growth plates are made of.
View attachment 4297722
This area is mainly responsible for growing your midface forward, or downwards (oh no!).
Now, the moment this cartilage stops growing, the development of your midface stops aswell.
This is cartilage, meaning it doesn’t show up xrays, or CT/CBCT Scans, the only place you can actually see it is on MRI’s, but there’s literally no way you can bullshit your way into getting an MRI, especially for something like this.
Now the typical method to determine this is actually through lefthand xrays, hyaline cartilage ossifying is systematic, which is why you can check your knee or your wrist to determine your growth plate status, and not have to check both or prioritize one of them.
It’s as simple as this, if the growth plates in your wrist or knee are fused (see Chapter 1 of this guide to determine that), then your nasal septal cartilage has also ossified and completed its work. (Most of the time, after one growth site in your body has ossified, the others follow suit within the next few months, not enough time to get any significant growth anyways).
3. How to estimate your bone age. (Better than ChatGPT)
In my personal experience experimenting with this method, my estimates have beaten chatgpt 3/3 times.
I’m not an experienced radiologist, and asking chatgpt is the only other option for users to estimate their bone age without going to a radiologist (This isn’t to replace a radiologist’s rating, this is for an at-home analysis)
The method we’re going to be using is the Tanner-Whitehouse 3, Radius-Ulna-Short Bones method. For simplicity’s sake I’ll refer to it as the TW3-RUS method from now on.
The typical margin of error using this method is 6-9 months, although during puberty this can differ up to over a year since people can have unpredictable and uneven growth spurts.
TW3-RUS is the most refined and as of today the best method for estimating bone age.
To continue with this method & estimate your own bone age, you’ll need an xray of your non dominant hand, including your wrist. We’re going to be evaluating a total of 13 bones.
I’ve worked my ass off to create the following reference sheets, so here’s what you’re going to do with them.
I added references for stages A (Completely unfused), E-F (Partial fusion, basically late stages of puberty), and I (Complete Fusion)
You will have to eyeball this now using your own xrays, I’ve given three examples and some wiggle-room for letters using a reference bar (green-red) below the image, write down your estimated guesses in a text file until you finish all 13 bones.
Don’t doubt yourself, eyeballing isn’t perfect but it still works well, just choose & continue.
Ex.
“My Radius looks more fused than the image from E-F, but its not as fused as I, it’s closer to the 2nd picture though, so I’ll rate it G” And continue
Bonetype: Radius (distal end)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: Ulna (distal end)
View attachment 4297727
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Metacarpal (thumb)
View attachment 4297729
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Metacarpal (middle finger)
View attachment 4297731
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Metacarpal (pinky)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297736
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297737
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297738
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297739
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297741
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Distal Phalanx (thumb)
View attachment 4297742
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Distal Phalanx (middle finger)
View attachment 4297743
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Distal Phalanx (pinky)
View attachment 4297744
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
There you go, it wasn’t that hard was it?
Now that you’ve got your letters written down, it should look something like this:
Radius = H, Ulna = G
1st MC = I, 3rd MC = I, 5th MC = H
1st PProx = I, 3rd PProx = I, 5th PProx = H
3rd PMid = H, 5th PMid = G
1st PDist = I, 3rd PDist = H, 5th PDist = H
( You should have labeled them ideally, and the letters will vary )
Now convert these letters into numerical value ( TW3-RUS Score )
View attachment 4297753
For each letter you should assign points per bone, then calculate the total by combining all of the points
Total TW3-RUS Score Estimated Bone age ( male ) Estimated Bone age ( female ) 400 9 Years 6 Months 9 Years 3 Months 425 10 Years 3 Months 9 Years 9 Months 450 11 Years 0 Months 10 Years 0 Months 475 11 Years 6 Months 11 Years 0 Months 500 12 Years 3 Months 12 Years 0 Months 525 12 Years 9 Months 12 Years 6 Months 550 13 Years 3 Months 13 Years 0 Months 575 13 Years 9 Months 13 Years 6 Months 600 14 Years 3 Months 14 Years 0 Months
625 14 Years 9 Months 14 Years 6 Months 650 15 Years 3 Months 15 Years 0 Months 675 15 Years 9 Months 15 Years 6 Months 700 16 Years 3 Months 15 Years 9 Months 725 16 Years 9 Months 16 Years 0 Months 750 17 Years 3 Months 16 Years 3 Months 775 17 Years 9 Months 16 Years 9 Months 800 18 Years 17 Years 0 Months
There’s your bone age within a 6-9 month range. You can consider adding another slight margin of error since you’re not an experienced radiologist & don’t have experience reading these.
Bone age = chronological age = normal growth tempo ( You’ll grow normally )
Bone age < chronological age = delayed skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow more )
Bone age > chronological age = advanced skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow less )
If you want to practice & get better at this, I’ve left a link to a 10gb dataset of left hand xrays (with the correct result bone age assigned) as a link below
I hope this helped, and I hope I didn’t annihilate your dreams of growing taller
Lefthand Xrays used for graphics & Depictions:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kmader/rsna-bone-age?select=boneage-training-dataset.csv
I used these images from the dataset for my examples:
10982.png, 1498.png, 1387.png, 10552.png, 1934.png
I also used Assessment of skeletal maturity and prediction of adult height (TW3 method) [ Book ]
By J.M. Tanner
You do not want to know how difficult it was to get information out of this book. Fucking lost media.
Tags: @BigBallsLarry @Quncho @aids @ybuyhgui @chadisbeingmade
( I won’t be tagging my off-topic friends for guides like these, sorry guys. )
holyThe Radiology behind Facial Development & Bodily Growth Indicators
By @Orka
I've seen at least 50 questions asking if somebody's growth plates are still open or not, or to estimate their bone age,so to make it easy, here's how you can answer your own questions!
Table Of Contents (easiest to hardest)
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
- What are growth plates?
- Analysis of your wrist’s growth plate
- Analysis of your knee’s growth plate
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
- Midpalatal Suture
- Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures in your face
- Nasal Septal Cartilage
3. How to estimate bone age
- An Introduction to TW3-RUS
- Where to look & how to determine sizes [ Custom reference sheets ]
- Process walkthrough & conclusion
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
A growth plate (or an Epiphyseal plate) is a region of cartilage near the ends of long bones in children and adolescents where new bone tissue is created, causing the bone to grow in length and width.
This process continues until adolescence, when the growth plates harden into solid bone, a process called "closing" or “fusing”.
Male growth plates tend to fuse at around 16-19, once your plates have fused/closed, they will not grow any longer or wider.
Now, to find out if your growth plates are fused or not, we’re going to look at your wrist & knees for your height, and at your clavicles for your frame.
View attachment 4297716
Above I've added 3 figures, from open ( A ) to fully fused ( C ), those are your growth plates, if theres a visible line like in B, they’re still open, but closer to fusion. ( You will typically see this in X-rays of teenagers). Whereas if you don’t see any lines at all, it means the cartilage has hardened into solid bone, ending any growth potential.
View attachment 4297802
Once again, refer to the graphic above.
If there’s a visible gap or a full line, your growth plates are open, if there’s no visible line, they’re closed.
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
The most important sutures when it comes to facial development are your Midpalatal, Frontomaxillary, Zygomatomaxillary & Pterygopalatine Sutures, but in reality your sutures aren't a growth center, meaning that scanning them and determining their status is for the most part useless, except for the midpalatal suture (one that is a little bit important!)
i. Midpalatal Suture
View attachment 4297717
Here are graphics (I) and CBCT Scans (II) of your midpalatal suture.
Figure A is a young child, 10-12 years old, then onto Figure B where the child is 11-13, C where they’re 13-15, D representing a 15-19 year old, and E representing a fully fused midpalatal suture of a fully grown person, usually 19-20+ years old.
If you still see a line on your scan, your suture is not fused. If you do not see any line on your scan, it’s fused.
Your midpalatal suture begins fusing from the back, so the line you do see will get shorter & shorter until eventually it matures and fuses completely.
Clinically speaking the only significant thing you need to take away from your scans are if your midpalatal suture is fused or not, around the ages of 15-19 you’ll likely have this scan done by your ortho if you’re considering getting a palate expander of any kind.
If it is fused, then you’ll likely be assigned a SARME, SARPE or SAMARPE for your expansion ( Note that this will not mean your zygos become wider, or any extreme external aesthetic benefit, your palate will get wider. ) whereas if it’s not fused, you’ll typically be assigned a regular mse / expander.
ii. Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures.
Before joining this forum I was super active in many looksmaxing discord servers, where I noticed people believing Sutures worked similarly to growth plates.
I’m not saying you believe this, I’m adding this section to clear up misconceptions.
Your sutures are not growth centers, they do not grow & just because your sutures are open doesn’t mean they’ll grow.
The status of your sutures simply shows if the area will respond to growth or not.
If your sutures are closed, no you won’t grow anymore, but just because they’re open doesn’t mean they’ll grow, so even if you notice all your sutures are open, your growth still might be over.
iii. Nasal Septal Cartilage
As opposed to Sutures, The Nasal Septal Cartilage is a growth center, meaning its made of the same Hyaline cartilage that your growth plates are made of.
View attachment 4297722
This area is mainly responsible for growing your midface forward, or downwards (oh no!).
Now, the moment this cartilage stops growing, the development of your midface stops aswell.
This is cartilage, meaning it doesn’t show up xrays, or CT/CBCT Scans, the only place you can actually see it is on MRI’s, but there’s literally no way you can bullshit your way into getting an MRI, especially for something like this.
Now the typical method to determine this is actually through lefthand xrays, hyaline cartilage ossifying is systematic, which is why you can check your knee or your wrist to determine your growth plate status, and not have to check both or prioritize one of them.
It’s as simple as this, if the growth plates in your wrist or knee are fused (see Chapter 1 of this guide to determine that), then your nasal septal cartilage has also ossified and completed its work. (Most of the time, after one growth site in your body has ossified, the others follow suit within the next few months, not enough time to get any significant growth anyways).
3. How to estimate your bone age. (Better than ChatGPT)
In my personal experience experimenting with this method, my estimates have beaten chatgpt 3/3 times.
I’m not an experienced radiologist, and asking chatgpt is the only other option for users to estimate their bone age without going to a radiologist (This isn’t to replace a radiologist’s rating, this is for an at-home analysis)
The method we’re going to be using is the Tanner-Whitehouse 3, Radius-Ulna-Short Bones method. For simplicity’s sake I’ll refer to it as the TW3-RUS method from now on.
The typical margin of error using this method is 6-9 months, although during puberty this can differ up to over a year since people can have unpredictable and uneven growth spurts.
TW3-RUS is the most refined and as of today the best method for estimating bone age.
To continue with this method & estimate your own bone age, you’ll need an xray of your non dominant hand, including your wrist. We’re going to be evaluating a total of 13 bones.
I’ve worked my ass off to create the following reference sheets, so here’s what you’re going to do with them.
I added references for stages A (Completely unfused), E-F (Partial fusion, basically late stages of puberty), and I (Complete Fusion)
You will have to eyeball this now using your own xrays, I’ve given three examples and some wiggle-room for letters using a reference bar (green-red) below the image, write down your estimated guesses in a text file until you finish all 13 bones.
Don’t doubt yourself, eyeballing isn’t perfect but it still works well, just choose & continue.
Ex.
“My Radius looks more fused than the image from E-F, but its not as fused as I, it’s closer to the 2nd picture though, so I’ll rate it G” And continue
Bonetype: Radius (distal end)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: Ulna (distal end)
View attachment 4297727
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Metacarpal (thumb)
View attachment 4297729
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Metacarpal (middle finger)
View attachment 4297731
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Metacarpal (pinky)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297736
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297737
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297738
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297739
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297741
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Distal Phalanx (thumb)
View attachment 4297742
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Distal Phalanx (middle finger)
View attachment 4297743
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Distal Phalanx (pinky)
View attachment 4297744
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
There you go, it wasn’t that hard was it?
Now that you’ve got your letters written down, it should look something like this:
Radius = H, Ulna = G
1st MC = I, 3rd MC = I, 5th MC = H
1st PProx = I, 3rd PProx = I, 5th PProx = H
3rd PMid = H, 5th PMid = G
1st PDist = I, 3rd PDist = H, 5th PDist = H
( You should have labeled them ideally, and the letters will vary )
Now convert these letters into numerical value ( TW3-RUS Score )
View attachment 4297753
For each letter you should assign points per bone, then calculate the total by combining all of the points
Total TW3-RUS Score Estimated Bone age ( male ) Estimated Bone age ( female ) 400 9 Years 6 Months 9 Years 3 Months 425 10 Years 3 Months 9 Years 9 Months 450 11 Years 0 Months 10 Years 0 Months 475 11 Years 6 Months 11 Years 0 Months 500 12 Years 3 Months 12 Years 0 Months 525 12 Years 9 Months 12 Years 6 Months 550 13 Years 3 Months 13 Years 0 Months 575 13 Years 9 Months 13 Years 6 Months 600 14 Years 3 Months 14 Years 0 Months
625 14 Years 9 Months 14 Years 6 Months 650 15 Years 3 Months 15 Years 0 Months 675 15 Years 9 Months 15 Years 6 Months 700 16 Years 3 Months 15 Years 9 Months 725 16 Years 9 Months 16 Years 0 Months 750 17 Years 3 Months 16 Years 3 Months 775 17 Years 9 Months 16 Years 9 Months 800 18 Years 17 Years 0 Months
There’s your bone age within a 6-9 month range. You can consider adding another slight margin of error since you’re not an experienced radiologist & don’t have experience reading these.
Bone age = chronological age = normal growth tempo ( You’ll grow normally )
Bone age < chronological age = delayed skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow more )
Bone age > chronological age = advanced skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow less )
If you want to practice & get better at this, I’ve left a link to a 10gb dataset of left hand xrays (with the correct result bone age assigned) as a link below
I hope this helped, and I hope I didn’t annihilate your dreams of growing taller
Lefthand Xrays used for graphics & Depictions:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kmader/rsna-bone-age?select=boneage-training-dataset.csv
I used these images from the dataset for my examples:
10982.png, 1498.png, 1387.png, 10552.png, 1934.png
I also used Assessment of skeletal maturity and prediction of adult height (TW3 method) [ Book ]
By J.M. Tanner
You do not want to know how difficult it was to get information out of this book. Fucking lost media.
Tags: @BigBallsLarry @Quncho @aids @ybuyhgui @chadisbeingmade
( I won’t be tagging my off-topic friends for guides like these, sorry guys. )
Thank you!
I don't want to be narcy about it but I'm very happy with how this thread turned out, also happy with how the graphics I made turned out, we'll just let time pass and see if there's a possibility of it getting to the botb, would be pretty neat!
Unfortunate reality, but its better to know that its over instead of being oblivious to the fact!
thanks guys
so basically its impossible to increase bone mass as well? like getting a more dimorphic face ,etc?
well it really depends, for the most part puberty will help your face become more masculine as long as your diet is good, but some testosterone during peak puberty (13-15) might help
best way to describe how test changes your face ngl
Did you read the 3rd chapter?
nig what did i j open
right. Yeah I have heard even mainstream looksmaxxers are getting fillers. I have two more questions. 1. What about growing clavicles and trying to get a wider shoulder, I have heard clavicles develop until 25. 2. I have always heard about how fillers migrate, how do u stop the filler from migrating and ruining the face?
1. its much easier to get clavicle gains from hgh, you're correct about the length of which they develop, so yes its possible
Thanks!damn how did i not see this yesterday
mirin the effort tho
Yes all you need to do is go to the doctor get an xray for 100 - 300 dollars and ask the doctor if your plates are closed
If it was this simple for the people this guide is targetting, the looksmaxing questions subforum wouldnt have 60+ threads asking about it
Thanks!
no worries man hahaThanks!
Sorry that I had to go, I'm sure I'd love to carry @Hernan on fortnite again in the future
We did all the work n he watched
here b4 botbThe Radiology behind Facial Development & Bodily Growth Indicators
By @Orka
I've seen at least 50 questions asking if somebody's growth plates are still open or not, or to estimate their bone age,so to make it easy, here's how you can answer your own questions!
Table Of Contents (easiest to hardest)
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
- What are growth plates?
- Analysis of your wrist’s growth plate
- Analysis of your knee’s growth plate
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
- Midpalatal Suture
- Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures in your face
- Nasal Septal Cartilage
3. How to estimate bone age
- An Introduction to TW3-RUS
- Where to look & how to determine sizes [ Custom reference sheets ]
- Process walkthrough & conclusion
1. What are growth plates & how to determine their status
A growth plate (or an Epiphyseal plate) is a region of cartilage near the ends of long bones in children and adolescents where new bone tissue is created, causing the bone to grow in length and width.
This process continues until adolescence, when the growth plates harden into solid bone, a process called "closing" or “fusing”.
Male growth plates tend to fuse at around 16-19, once your plates have fused/closed, they will not grow any longer or wider.
Now, to find out if your growth plates are fused or not, we’re going to look at your wrist & knees for your height, and at your clavicles for your frame.
View attachment 4297716
Above I've added 3 figures, from open ( A ) to fully fused ( C ), those are your growth plates, if theres a visible line like in B, they’re still open, but closer to fusion. ( You will typically see this in X-rays of teenagers). Whereas if you don’t see any lines at all, it means the cartilage has hardened into solid bone, ending any growth potential.
View attachment 4297802
Once again, refer to the graphic above.
If there’s a visible gap or a full line, your growth plates are open, if there’s no visible line, they’re closed.
2. Facial Growth Centers & Sutures
The most important sutures when it comes to facial development are your Midpalatal, Frontomaxillary, Zygomatomaxillary & Pterygopalatine Sutures, but in reality your sutures aren't a growth center, meaning that scanning them and determining their status is for the most part useless, except for the midpalatal suture (one that is a little bit important!)
i. Midpalatal Suture
View attachment 4297717
Here are graphics (I) and CBCT Scans (II) of your midpalatal suture.
Figure A is a young child, 10-12 years old, then onto Figure B where the child is 11-13, C where they’re 13-15, D representing a 15-19 year old, and E representing a fully fused midpalatal suture of a fully grown person, usually 19-20+ years old.
If you still see a line on your scan, your suture is not fused. If you do not see any line on your scan, it’s fused.
Your midpalatal suture begins fusing from the back, so the line you do see will get shorter & shorter until eventually it matures and fuses completely.
Clinically speaking the only significant thing you need to take away from your scans are if your midpalatal suture is fused or not, around the ages of 15-19 you’ll likely have this scan done by your ortho if you’re considering getting a palate expander of any kind.
If it is fused, then you’ll likely be assigned a SARME, SARPE or SAMARPE for your expansion ( Note that this will not mean your zygos become wider, or any extreme external aesthetic benefit, your palate will get wider. ) whereas if it’s not fused, you’ll typically be assigned a regular mse / expander.
ii. Aesthetic Relevance of Sutures.
Before joining this forum I was super active in many looksmaxing discord servers, where I noticed people believing Sutures worked similarly to growth plates.
I’m not saying you believe this, I’m adding this section to clear up misconceptions.
Your sutures are not growth centers, they do not grow & just because your sutures are open doesn’t mean they’ll grow.
The status of your sutures simply shows if the area will respond to growth or not.
If your sutures are closed, no you won’t grow anymore, but just because they’re open doesn’t mean they’ll grow, so even if you notice all your sutures are open, your growth still might be over.
iii. Nasal Septal Cartilage
As opposed to Sutures, The Nasal Septal Cartilage is a growth center, meaning its made of the same Hyaline cartilage that your growth plates are made of.
View attachment 4297722
This area is mainly responsible for growing your midface forward, or downwards (oh no!).
Now, the moment this cartilage stops growing, the development of your midface stops aswell.
This is cartilage, meaning it doesn’t show up xrays, or CT/CBCT Scans, the only place you can actually see it is on MRI’s, but there’s literally no way you can bullshit your way into getting an MRI, especially for something like this.
Now the typical method to determine this is actually through lefthand xrays, hyaline cartilage ossifying is systematic, which is why you can check your knee or your wrist to determine your growth plate status, and not have to check both or prioritize one of them.
It’s as simple as this, if the growth plates in your wrist or knee are fused (see Chapter 1 of this guide to determine that), then your nasal septal cartilage has also ossified and completed its work. (Most of the time, after one growth site in your body has ossified, the others follow suit within the next few months, not enough time to get any significant growth anyways).
3. How to estimate your bone age. (Better than ChatGPT)
In my personal experience experimenting with this method, my estimates have beaten chatgpt 3/3 times.
I’m not an experienced radiologist, and asking chatgpt is the only other option for users to estimate their bone age without going to a radiologist (This isn’t to replace a radiologist’s rating, this is for an at-home analysis)
The method we’re going to be using is the Tanner-Whitehouse 3, Radius-Ulna-Short Bones method. For simplicity’s sake I’ll refer to it as the TW3-RUS method from now on.
The typical margin of error using this method is 6-9 months, although during puberty this can differ up to over a year since people can have unpredictable and uneven growth spurts.
TW3-RUS is the most refined and as of today the best method for estimating bone age.
To continue with this method & estimate your own bone age, you’ll need an xray of your non dominant hand, including your wrist. We’re going to be evaluating a total of 13 bones.
I’ve worked my ass off to create the following reference sheets, so here’s what you’re going to do with them.
I added references for stages A (Completely unfused), E-F (Partial fusion, basically late stages of puberty), and I (Complete Fusion)
You will have to eyeball this now using your own xrays, I’ve given three examples and some wiggle-room for letters using a reference bar (green-red) below the image, write down your estimated guesses in a text file until you finish all 13 bones.
Don’t doubt yourself, eyeballing isn’t perfect but it still works well, just choose & continue.
Ex.
“My Radius looks more fused than the image from E-F, but its not as fused as I, it’s closer to the 2nd picture though, so I’ll rate it G” And continue
Bonetype: Radius (distal end)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: Ulna (distal end)
View attachment 4297727
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Metacarpal (thumb)
View attachment 4297729
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Metacarpal (middle finger)
View attachment 4297731
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Metacarpal (pinky)
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297736
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297737
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Proximal Phalanx
View attachment 4297738
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297739
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Middle Phalanx
View attachment 4297741
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 1st Distal Phalanx (thumb)
View attachment 4297742
Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 3rd Distal Phalanx (middle finger)
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Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
Bonetype: 5th Distal Phalanx (pinky)
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Check & use the chart below to figure out where you are. Then write your result on a piece of paper or a text file.
There you go, it wasn’t that hard was it?
Now that you’ve got your letters written down, it should look something like this:
Radius = H, Ulna = G
1st MC = I, 3rd MC = I, 5th MC = H
1st PProx = I, 3rd PProx = I, 5th PProx = H
3rd PMid = H, 5th PMid = G
1st PDist = I, 3rd PDist = H, 5th PDist = H
( You should have labeled them ideally, and the letters will vary )
Now convert these letters into numerical value ( TW3-RUS Score )
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For each letter you should assign points per bone, then calculate the total by combining all of the points
Total TW3-RUS Score Estimated Bone age ( male ) Estimated Bone age ( female ) 400 9 Years 6 Months 9 Years 3 Months 425 10 Years 3 Months 9 Years 9 Months 450 11 Years 0 Months 10 Years 0 Months 475 11 Years 6 Months 11 Years 0 Months 500 12 Years 3 Months 12 Years 0 Months 525 12 Years 9 Months 12 Years 6 Months 550 13 Years 3 Months 13 Years 0 Months 575 13 Years 9 Months 13 Years 6 Months 600 14 Years 3 Months 14 Years 0 Months
625 14 Years 9 Months 14 Years 6 Months 650 15 Years 3 Months 15 Years 0 Months 675 15 Years 9 Months 15 Years 6 Months 700 16 Years 3 Months 15 Years 9 Months 725 16 Years 9 Months 16 Years 0 Months 750 17 Years 3 Months 16 Years 3 Months 775 17 Years 9 Months 16 Years 9 Months 800 18 Years 17 Years 0 Months
There’s your bone age within a 6-9 month range. You can consider adding another slight margin of error since you’re not an experienced radiologist & don’t have experience reading these.
Bone age = chronological age = normal growth tempo ( You’ll grow normally )
Bone age < chronological age = delayed skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow more )
Bone age > chronological age = advanced skeletal maturation ( You’ll grow less )
If you want to practice & get better at this, I’ve left a link to a 10gb dataset of left hand xrays (with the correct result bone age assigned) as a link below
I hope this helped, and I hope I didn’t annihilate your dreams of growing taller
Lefthand Xrays used for graphics & Depictions:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kmader/rsna-bone-age?select=boneage-training-dataset.csv
I used these images from the dataset for my examples:
10982.png, 1498.png, 1387.png, 10552.png, 1934.png
I also used Assessment of skeletal maturity and prediction of adult height (TW3 method) [ Book ]
By J.M. Tanner
You do not want to know how difficult it was to get information out of this book. Fucking lost media.
Tags: @BigBallsLarry @Quncho @aids @ybuyhgui @chadisbeingmade
( I won’t be tagging my off-topic friends for guides like these, sorry guys. )
i beg to differ, the last two months its been "how do i buy forward growth" and "can i drink cjc no dac" in the looksmaxxing sub
that is true
DUDE what is their fucking obsession with cjc
