Bone Development

• Bone Development

  Osteogenesis (ossification) - formation of bone tissue

  stages

  • bone formation - begins in the 2nd month of fetal development
  • postnatal bone growth - until early adulthood
  • bone remodeling and repair - lifelong
• Ossification

  Endochondral Ossification

  • bone forms by replacing hyaline cartilage
  • most of the skeleton is formed through this process