Did you know that a newborn baby has more bones than an adult?

The number of bones in adults ranges from 206 to 208 approximately, but we must remember that this figure is not met in young children and even less in newborns. Why?

This is because newborns are born with some bones separated to facilitate their exit from the birth canal, for example we have the bones of the skull, if we palpate the head of a newborn we find soft parts called fontanels: in them the bones are joined by cartilaginous tissue that later will ossify to form the skull of an adult.

Also the maxilla is divided in two, the upper and lower jaw, when the lower jaw is sutured it will give rise to a type of suture called symphysis.

So the number of bones depends on the age of the person to which it refers, but on average for an adult is about 206 bones.