At 8 weeks after tooth extraction, the entrance to the extraction site is bridged with cortical bone.
Ridge alterations: 8 week
author: Nikos Mardas | publisher: drg. Andreas Tjandra, Sp. Perio, FISID
At 8 weeks after tooth extraction, the entrance to the extraction site is bridged with cortical bone. The woven bone in the socket is replaced with bone marrow and some trabeculae of lamellar bone. At the crests of the buccal and lingual cortical plates, there are signs of ongoing bone resorption.
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