The cortical plates of the supporting bone are continuous with the alveolar bone proper lining the tooth sockets.
Outer cortical plate
author: Nikos Mardas | publisher: drg. Andreas Tjandra, Sp. Perio, FISID
The cortical plates of the supporting bone are continuous with the alveolar bone proper lining the tooth sockets. The cortical plates are thicker in the mandible than in the maxilla, and they are thickest in the molar and premolar regions of the mandible.
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