The extraction socket is a term used to describe the tissues remaining after tooth removal.
Extraction socket
author: Nikos Mardas | publisher: drg. Andreas Tjandra, Sp. Perio, FISID
The extraction socket is a term used to describe the tissues remaining after tooth removal. The outer walls of the extraction socket consist mainly of cortical bone.
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