TED-Ed

What happens when you break a bone? - Gurpreet Baht and Natalie Pang

2026 • E19    Mar 10, 2026    4m
The human body’s 206 bones come in many shapes and sizes: short bones, long bones, flat bones, irregular bones. Roughly 50% of people will break a bone at some point in their lives. But whether the cause is as mundane as a slip on the ice or as dramatic as a tightrope-walking accident, how do our broken bones heal? Gurpreet Baht and Natalie Pang dig into the incredible biological process.

Lesson by Gurpreet Baht and Natalie Pang, directed by Eliška Oz, Lee Oz, Oz Animation.

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