Radiographs of the hand and wrist will help the nurse to determine the skeletal growth of a child.
The hand and wrist radiographs aid in determining the child's physical maturation status by estimating the skeletal age of bone. The orthodontist can use bone age to better coordinate orthodontic therapy with the growth process. The idea behind using hand and wrist radiographs to determine skeletal age is that the skeleton in the hand and wrist region is made up of 27 small bones, the distal ends of long bones radius and ulna.
These bones develop throughout the entire postnatal growth period, from the appearance of calcification centers to the closure of the epiphyseal plate, and thus provide a useful means of assessing skeletal maturity.
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