The mean reduction in width of the alveolar ridge was calculated to be approximately 4 mm.
Mean width reduction
author: Nikos Mardas | publisher: drg. Andreas Tjandra, Sp. Perio, FISID
The weighted means showed that the clinical loss in width is greater than the loss in height. The mean reduction in width of the alveolar ridge was calculated to be approximately 4 mm.
Serial posts:
- Ridge alterations following tooth extraction
- Reduction in alveolar ridge characterizes alveolar atrophy
- Factors influence tissue atrophy
- Decrease in ridge height
- Decrease in ridge width
- Dimensional change in alveolar bone
- Mean width reduction
- Mean height reduction
- Radiographic height reduction
- Ridge alterations: 1 week
- Ridge alterations: 2 week
- Ridge alterations: 4 week
- Ridge alterations: 8 week
- Buccal wall
- Factors influencing post-extraction ridge atrophy