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Becoming an Advocate for ELSA -Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act

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Hi, my name is Brittany Anderson. I had a tooth removed in 1997, when I was 13 years old, and the swelling never went down from the extraction. They then did a biopsy on the bone and I was diagnosed with a bone disease called fibrous dysplasia (FD). FD is a rare genetic disease that […]

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Drs. Alison Boyce (left) and Luis Fernandez de Casto (right)

Fibrous Dysplasia Research Gains More Scientific Attention at Bone Mineral Research Meeting

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This September, FD/MAS Alliance sent Executive Director Adrienne McBride, to attend the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) meeting, which Dr. Michael Collins called “a real triumph for the fibrous dysplasia/McCune-Albright syndrome (FD/MAS) research community.”  Drs. Michael Collins, Acting Chair of the FD/MAS Alliance Scientific Advisory Council (SAC), and Alison Boyce, Chair of […]

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