Stranger Issues star was born with heartbreaking situation that is been written into complete sequence

As the ultimate instalment of Stranger Issues hits screens as we enter 2026, the uncommon situation one among its lead stars was born with has been explored out and in of the present.

Again in July 2016, followers have been first launched to the Netflix solid, and so they started to fall in love with the lovable character of Dustin Henderson, who’s performed by Gaten Matarazzo.

Whereas within the present it was generally talked about that Dustin didn’t have tooth, regardless of his co-stars all having their gnashers out at their younger ages, it was rapidly revealed that the trigger was on account of a uncommon genetic situation.

Matarazzo has a situation referred to as ‘cleidocranial dysplasia’, which impacts round one individual in a single million individuals, per Johns Hopkins Drugs’s web site.

Basically, it’s a dysfunction that impacts an individual’s bone and tooth growth.

The 23-year-old actor, who shared a terrifying warning forward of the present’s ultimate episode, has been open about residing with cleidocranial dysplasia, and even revealed up to now that it was the rationale he was capable of get into appearing.

Matarazzo told Well being Perception: “Just about each half I’ve booked is due to the situation. Ultimately, it impacts me — whether or not or not it’s my peak or my tooth or making me look youthful.”

Nonetheless, he went on to say that he didn’t need it to outline his profession strikes, including: “Hopefully, I can evolve from that and never simply get roles due to the situation, I can play components that don’t have bodily disabilities or something like that. I can play somebody who isn’t related to the situation.”



However when it got here to Stranger Issues, Matarazzo admitted that creators Matt and Ross Duffer ‘helped loads’ after they ‘integrated’ the situation into the present.

The star revealed it wasn’t the preliminary plan, ‘however after I advised them about it they appreciated the concept of getting a personality with a incapacity to offer him extra of a singular twist and make him extra relatable in a means’.

In an interview on The Medical doctors, Matarazzo additionally revealed that they checked with him first about some themes in Stranger Issues.

The actor mentioned: “They requested me if it was okay if the children within the present had bullied me due to it. I mentioned it’s completely cool. It’s reasonable.”

He additionally as soon as defined that cleidocranial dysplasia means he was ‘born with out collarbones’.

Throughout an look on The Jonathan Ross Present in 2016, Matarazzo shared: “It is a situation the place you’re born with out your collarbones; I haven’t got any. It impacts your facial progress, your cranium progress, it impacts your tooth. That is why I haven’t got any – these are pretend – I’ve tooth however they’re all child tooth.

“I simply need to increase consciousness for it and let individuals know that it isn’t one thing that try to be afraid of exhibiting.”

Stranger Issues Season 5 Volumes 1 and a pair of at the moment are streaming on Netflix. The finale lands at 1am on 1 January 2026.