New Technology at Columbus Regional Breast Care Center
offers new features to help patients of all ages
The Lunar Bone Densitometer helps assess risk for fractures,
track bone growth in children.
Let’s face it, parents! Most children will break a bone at some point in their childhood. And bone fractures in kids can be tricky because their bones are still growing.
A Lunar bone densitometer, also known as a Dexa scan, was recently installed at the Columbus Regional Breast Care Center. This is good news for patients of all ages. With the help of a bone densitometer, a pediatrician can measure a kid’s bone density and follow it over time, ensuring that a healing fracture doesn’t create a deformity.
The new Lunar bone densitometer has extensive pediatric software that measures a child’s bone mineral density and bone mineral content, and can help pediatricians accurately assess bone health in growing children of various body sizes and growth rates.
This advanced technology can help doctors diagnose certain conditions that are known to affect the pediatric skeleton, including growth hormone deficiency, anorexia, cystic fibrosis, malnutrition, juvenile osteoporosis, thyroid conditions, type 1 diabetes and corticosteroid use, and more.
For parents, that means you no longer have to travel out of town with your child for this kind of diagnostic information.
Use of the new Dexa scan will require a doctor’s referral. Talk to your child’s pediatrician about how the Lunar bone densitometer can best benefit your kids.
