The buccal bone plate is comparatively thinner than the lingual or palatal plate.
Ridge of edentulous site
author: Nikos Mardas | publisher: drg. Andreas Tjandra, Sp. Perio, FISID
The outer walls of the alveolar ridge consist of cortical bone. The buccal bone plate is comparatively thinner than the lingual or palatal plate. The cortical plates enclose trabecular bone that consists of bony trabeculae and marrow. As a rule, the ridge of an edentulous site in the maxilla contains comparatively more trabecular bone than a site in 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