Types of dwarfism

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Find out more about dwarfism conditions. 

Bodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are over 200 different types of dwarfism. Many conditions of dwarfism can have some medical complications, but most people have an average life expectancy and are productive members of society. 

Eighty percent of people with dwarfism have average height parents and siblings. Some types of dwarfism are simply a genetic change at conception, which happen to have very visisble results. Some can be inherited genetically from one or both parents. 

A child with dwarfism is born 1 per 25,000 births. Very few doctos know much about the various dwarfism conditions. It is important to find a doctor who specialises in dwarfism for ongoing care, especially if there are any medical or orthopaedic complications. 

Here are the various types of Dwarfism:

• Achondrogenesis
  • Achondrogenesis 1a
  • Achondrogenesis 1b
  • Achondrogenesis II
• Achondroplasia
• Acrodysostosis
  • Acrodysostosis Type I
  • Acrodysostosis Type II
• Acromesomelic Dysplasia
• Diastrophic Dysplasia
• Chondrodysplasia Punctata
  • Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata
• • X-linked Chondrodysplasia Punctata 1
  • X-linked Chondrodysplasia Punctata 2 (Conradi-Hünermann-Happle syndrome)
• Ellis Van-Creveld Syndrome
• Hypochondroplasia
• Kneist Dysplasia
• Langer Mesomelic Dysplasia
• Léri-Weill Dyschondrosteosis
• Metaphyseal Chondrodysplasia
  • Schmid Type
  • McKusick Type (Cartilage-hair Hypoplasia)
• Morquio Syndrome
• Multiple Epiphyseal Dysplasia
• Osteogenesis Imperfecta
• Primordial Dwarfism
  • Russel-Silver Syndrome
  • Microcephalic Osteodysplastic Primordial Dwarfism Type I/III
  • Microcephalic Osteodysplastic Primordial Dwarfism Type II
  • Seckel Syndrome
  • Meier-Gorlin Syndrome
• Pseudoachondroplasia
• Spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasia congenita (SEDc)
• Spondyloepimetaphyseal Dysplasia (SEMD)
• Spondyloperiphereal Dysplasia
• Thanatophoric Dysplasia
• Turner Syndrome