alveolar ridge


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Noun1.alveolar ridge - a ridge that forms the borders of the upper and lower jaws and contains the sockets of the teethalveolar ridge - a ridge that forms the borders of the upper and lower jaws and contains the sockets of the teeth
tooth socket, alveolus - a bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth
alveolar artery, arteria alveolaris - a branch of the maxillary artery that supplies the alveolar process
appendage, outgrowth, process - a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process"
jaw - the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
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KeyWords: Ridge resorption, alveolar ridge, residual alveolar, mandibular ridge height, edentulism.
Parents were reporting that dental problems arose earlier on their child's side of face with the PWS, and that the alveolar ridge was lower on the side of the face that harbored the lesion.
At about six to twelve months, the hard palate is covered with soft tissue around the cavity.14 From eight to eleven years, the alveolar ridge is repaired using a bone graft.
Patients included in the study were, partially edentulous jaws with unilateral or bilateral loss of teeth in maxillary premolar or molar area, residual alveolar ridge height of 8 mm or less with no buccolingual augmentation.
A 70-year-old male patient who has been referred to Marmara University, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral Diagnosis and Radiology Clinic had a complaint of a progressively enlarging and non-healing lesion on the anterior maxillar buccal/palatinal mucosa and the alveolar ridge, which increased to the present size in 1 month.
Golden, CO, April 19, 2018 --(PR.com)-- The paper entitled "A Randomized Split-Mouth Clinical Trial on Effectiveness of Amnion-Chorion Membranes in Alveolar Ridge Preservation: A Clinical, Radiologic, and Morphometric Study," was authored by Muyeenul Hassan, BDS, DDS, MSD; Sivaraman Prakasam, BDS, MSD, PhD; Carol Bain, DVM, HTL; Ahmed Ghoneima, BDS, MS, PhD; and Sean Shih-Yao Liu, DDS, MS, PhD.
Geistlich Bio-Gide Compressed is indicated for the augmentation around implants placed in immediate or delayed extraction sockets, localized ridge augmentation for later implantation, alveolar ridge reconstruction for prosthetic treatment, filling of bone defects after root resection, cystectomy and removal of retained teeth, guided bone regeneration in dehiscence defects and guided tissue regeneration procedures in periodontal defects.
Exostosis 7 Years after Alveolar Ridge Augmentation with Pocket Technique
Measurement of IOF in relation to IOM and Maxillary Alveolar Ridge at the Second Premolar.
Agenesis of almost all permanent teeth, except the 13th tooth, underdeveloped alveolar ridge with "knife-edge" shape (a and b) and prosthodontic rehabilitation with the use of upper and lower dentures (c).
Clinical research has demonstrated positive results when cells derived from the periosteum were applied for sinus or alveolar ridge augmentation, which showed reliable implant insertion, with improved bone remodeling and lamellar bone production, and also demonstrated that shorter postoperative waiting time was needed after implantation.