Bone Loss

Bone loss may refer to a number of entities:

  • Osteoporosis, a condition in which overall bone density decreases
  • Periodontitis, a condition in which the supporting bone around teeth exhibits resorption

Famous quotes containing the words bone and/or loss:

    “We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.”
    —Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)

    “Progress may feel more like loss than gain.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)