I’m not sure how that condition affects muscle growth, so I don’t know if it would be beneficial or not.
Would it affect teeth? I don’t know.
But we also have the issue where the Chinese themselves have reported their ages in old articles as being younger than they reported for the olympics.
We also have the issue of the first chinese floor routine.
That was not the performance of a 16 yr. old who had years of dance training.
It doesn’t affect muscles or teeth as far as adversely. From what I have read and what the doctors have told me, there is nothing bad about it but short stature and probably delayed puberty and delayed adult teeth. And that is only from the body thinking it’s younger. But delayed puberty is a good thing because the longer she goes without puberty, the taller she will grow.
They did a bone age scan and her bones “think” she is right at 4 years old. It’s the same condition as Tom Thumb and he didn’t have any troubles except being obese for his height later in life. And that can happen no matter what your height.
They have offered her to have human growth hormone therapy, but her dad and I declined. There seems to be lots of risks involved with that and it’s also painful muscles injections daily.
We have just accepted her as a little person and love her as she is. It wasn’t until this year that we even thought of it benefiting her in anything, but we aren’t ready to push for Olympics, haha. She just takes gymnastics in a local class with girls her age. When reading about this, I wouldn’t put it past them to either cheat and claim a higher age for their gymnasts, or that they have chemically altered the pituatary gland to delay growth.