Socket and Ridge Preservation

Socket and Ridge Preservation

Description of this procedure

Socket and Ridge Preservation is a procedure in which graft material or scaffold is placed in the socket of an extracted tooth at the time of extraction to preserve the alveolar ridge. Without socket preservation, the bone quickly resorbs.
Socket and Ridge Preservation differs from Ridge Augmentation; in Socket Preservation, the graft or scaffold is placed inside the tooth socket immediately after extraction, whereas the Ridge Augmentation procedure is to reconstruct the resorbed alveolar bone.

Socket Preservation procedure prevents immediate bone resorption after extraction thus keeping the contour and integrity of the socket with successful and natural emergence profile of the final restoration. Without socket preservation, residual bones could lose volume resulting in loss of facial vertical and horizontal dimension and changes in facial soft tissues aesthetics.

Types of materials that could be used

  • Autogenous graft – Bone harvested from patient’s own body.
  • Xenograft – Bone grafts or collagen from bovine origin.
  • Allograft – bone substitute from human cadaver;
  • Alloplast – Synthetic biomaterials such as hydroxyapatite, Tricalcium Phosphate – ceramics etc.
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