A member asked:

If growth plates are fused in a 16 year old male, does that mean that any further growth of penis and testicles are also halted? or do those organs grow until you are 18?

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Dr. Lisa Roazen answered

Specializes in Emergency Medicine

Neither.: There is little relationship between the end of bone growth and the end of sexual development. A young man whose growth plates of his bones are fused may have already stopped genital development, or may see continued maturation. 18 is not a magic age where everything stops changing; adolescent changes in the genitals may stop well before age 18 or, in some young men, continue til the early 20s.

Answered 1/18/2020

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