Named after the British surgeon, Sir James Paget, Paget’s disease is a chronic disorder that is characterized by deformities in bone structuring and growth during the remodeling process. he process of bone remodeling is essential for normal calcium levels in our bodies (blood). A person afflicted with Paget’s disease will suffer from the consequence of having a bone remodeling process that is disturbed and not synchronized properly. This disturbance in bone remodeling results in the bones being abnormal, as a result, the bones may not be dense, may be brittle and prone to breaking or be deformed or enlarged. Paget’s disease is also known as Osteitis Deformans; Paget’s disease is known to primarily affect older bones of adults , however there have been extremely rare forms of Paget’s disease in children commonly referred to as Juvenile Paget’s disease.
Symptoms of Paget’s Disease
Most often, patients do not realize that they have Paget’s disease because there...

