Following tooth extraction, a well-described process of wound healing takes place in the extraction socket. A series of physiological events occur, resulting in wound healing and bone regeneration within the socket. Bone resorption results in external changes to the alveolar ridge.
Healing extraction socket
author: Nikos Mardas | publisher: drg. Andreas Tjandra, Sp. Perio, FISID
Following tooth extraction, a well-described process of wound healing takes place in the extraction socket. A series of physiological events occur, resulting in wound healing and bone regeneration within the socket. Bone resorption results in external changes to 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