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Need doctor's help! what do you call the disease that make your bones brittle and your bones brake very easily?
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It is called: Ostegenosis imperfect. It is a congenital disease affecting collagen formation leading to this disease which some people call brittle bone disease as well.
Answered 1/26/2014
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