Healing Biology of the Post-Extraction Socket

– Soft tissues behavior & bone behavior after tooth extraction

– Biologic width’s vertical dimensions: sulcus, epithelial adherence, connective tissue adherence

– Biologic width’s horizontal dimensions: marginal gingiva and connective tissue 

– Post-extraction gap: tactics

– Tissue involved in tooth extraction: epithelium, connective tissue, bone

– Primary closure: disadvantages

– Alveolar socket healing: differences between flap and flapless surgery

– The mean bone thickness

– Grafting strategies

– Bone resorption prevention

– Classification of soft tissue.

Recommended for: Implantologists.