In addition to the alveolar bone proper, the rest of the bone that supports the teeth is the supporting bone.
Supporting bone
author: Nikos Mardas | publisher: drg. Andreas Tjandra, Sp. Perio, FISID
In addition to the alveolar bone proper, the rest of the bone that supports the teeth is the supporting bone. This portion of the alveolar process consists of two parts: the outer cortical plates, buccal and lingual to the tooth, and the trabecular bone between the cortical plates and the tooth socket.
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