20 years ago, people were hospitalized for 5 days after a retinal surgery. Now, retinal tears can now be lazer treated in office, rather than hospitals. Scar tissue is the worst problem to deal with, after a detachment. Altered DNA results in altered proteins. DNA is like a VERY long sentence and a mutation is like one misspelled letter.
Youth is when the hyperplesia and dysplesias show up.
Teens seem to show polyarthralgia. He said that Osteoarthritis is uncommon in the shoulders and elbow, but Stickler syndrome commonly affects those two areas. Any drop in barometric pressure cause more pressure on the bones. She has been studying Stickler syndrome patients for 23 years. In her original research, only 8 of 40 persons had the COL2A1 mutation.