Osteoporosis is a potentially crippling disease characterized by the loss of bone tissue and increases your risk of fracture.

Osteoporosis has often been called the "silent" disease because it doesn't produce symptoms until a fracture occurs.

Approximately 50% of women over age 50 are at risk of sustaining an osteoporotic fracture.

Bone densitometry, using an advance technology called DXA (short for Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry) safely, accurately and painlessly measures bone density and the mineral content of bone.

During a bone evaluation with DXA, the patient lies comfortably still on a padded table while the DXA unit scans one or more areas, usually the fracture-prone spine or the hip.

Unlike typical x-ray machines, radiation exposure during bone densitometry is extremely low.