The alveolar process contains the roots of the teeth and developing tooth buds of unerupted teeth.
Alveolar process: function and development
author: Nikos Mardas | publisher: drg. Andreas Tjandra, Sp. Perio, FISID
The alveolar process contains the roots of the teeth and developing tooth buds of unerupted teeth. It is a tooth-dependent part of the jaws, since it forms in response to the development and eruption of the teeth. Its final volume and shape are determined by the form of the teeth, their axis of eruption, and their eventual inclination.
Serial posts:
- Healing extraction socket
- Resorption modifies alveolar ridges
- Anatomical features of the alveolar process
- Forming alveolar ridge
- Alveolar process: function and development
- Parts of alveolar process
- Different terms for the alveolar bone proper
- Lamina dura
- Alveolar bone proper: Attachment apparatus
- Bundle bone
- Alveolar bone proper
- Supporting bone
- Outer cortical plate
- Cortical bone
- Trabecular bone
- Macroanatomy of alveolar process
- Extraction socket
- Extraction socket wall
- Alveolar ridge
- Ridge of edentulous site