Victory Breast Diagnostics & Women's Imaging


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Areas of Practice:
  Mammography     (including 2nd     opinions/consultations)
  Ultrasound
  Aspiration/Biopsies
  Ductography
  Breast MRI
  Bone Density
  High Risk Assessment

Bone Density for Osteoporosis Screening

Bone densitometry is a way of measuring your bone density, which is a method of estimating the strength of bones and the likelihood of bone fractures with minimal or no trauma. If the bone density is very low, then you have osteoporosis and a very high risk of fracturing your bones. A standard x-ray is not a good way to measure bone density because you must lose at least 30% of your bone mass before it can be detected this way. The doctor and patient need to find our about any problems long before it get that severe.

There are different techniques for measuring bone density. Victory Breast Diagnostics & Woman’s Imaging uses the Discovery, Hologic’s most advanced bone densitometer, which combines the proven clinical value of Bone Mineral Density (BMD) measurement with Instant Vertebral Assessment (IVA) allowing assessment of the two most definitive factors associated with osteoporotic fracture risk; low bone mineral density and the presence of vertebral fractures. This is a high technology test which takes only a few minutes and involves no shots, needles, enemas, or medicine. In fact, you don’t even have to take off your clothes, provided what you are wearing does not contain any metal objects.

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