The term alveolar ridge refers to the alveolar bone following loss of teeth.
Alveolar ridge
author: Nikos Mardas | publisher: drg. Andreas Tjandra, Sp. Perio, FISID
The term alveolar ridge refers to the alveolar bone following loss of teeth. After a tooth is extracted, the alveolar process heals with formation of bone within the socket and external resorption or shrinkage of the bone, forming the alveolar ridge.
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