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Can a healed fracture be aged by x ray or scan for example can it show if fracture occurred 6 months or 6 years ago?
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Yes. Your bone doesn't actually "knit" back together, but grows new bone over the fracture. The calcification of this bone (how strong it is) can be aged.
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