The term "bone quality" is frequently used by clinicians, basic scientists, and engineers. However, do they mean the same thing? In this symposium, we asked the authors what they meant by "bone quality," and as the reader will discover, there are many aspects of bone quality that vary in importance and scope with the person providing the definition. In recent years, numerous reviews have explored and described bone quality (eg, [2-25, 29]) and some have discussed therapies for fragility fractures [13], but none has emphasized the transition from the bench to the bedside (and the operating room).
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