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:
“I wonder, Mr. Bone man, what you’re thinking
of your fury now, gone sour as a sinking whale,
crawling up the alphabet on her own bones.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)