The buccal bone plate is usually thin, especially in the anterior dentition, and it consists mainly of bundle bone.
Extraction socket wall
author: Nikos Mardas | publisher: drg. Andreas Tjandra, Sp. Perio, FISID
The buccal bone plate is usually thin, less than 1 mm, especially in the anterior dentition, and it consists mainly of bundle bone. On the contrary, the lingual or palatal wall of the socket is usually thicker than its buccal counterpart, and some trabecular bone may be present.
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