Socket preservation is vital after tooth extraction to minimize bone loss, which can be as high as 30-60% within six months. The procedure typically involves placing a bone graft into the socket, using materials like synthetic or natural bone, and optionally utilizing platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) to enhance healing. The goal is to maintain the ridge's anatomy, making future dental implant placements easier and more successful.

1. SOCKET
PRESERVATION

2. SOCKET PRESERVATION
• WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY A SOCKET?
• When you get a tooth removed whether due to
caries or trauma or advanced periodontal disease, a
hollow appears at the site where the tooth once was.
This site is called a socket.
• Socket upon healing results in osseous deformities
of the alveolar ridge.

4. • Tooth loss is best treated with the help of IMPLANTS.
• Now, for the implant to be placed, the socket has to
be preserved to reduce bone loss after tooth
extraction.
• Implant placement becomes challenging when there
is significant bone resorption.

5. • Without socket preservation bone loss takes place at
a fast pace which leads to 30-60% of bone loss within
6 months of extraction.

6. • Residual ridge resorption can be minimized by
maintaining the socket post extraction which allows
implant placement that satisfies the esthetic and
functional need.
• All Recent advances in bone grafting materials and
techniques are available at our clinic which allows
the placement of implants in sites that were
considered compromised in the past.

7. • A socket preservation procedure involves placing a
bone graft into the socket.
• This graft can be made of synthetic or natural like
bone from other animals or human bone.
• After putting the graft in the socket, collagen plug
can be inserted and then sutures are given to keep
the site closed.

10. • PRF also can be used to preserve the tooth socket
and then suturing is done to keep that intact.
• PRF is platelet rich fibrin which enhances the healing
process through the added advantage of growth
factors.
• PRF is routinely used in our clinic in order to maintain
the socket.

12. • Immediate implant placement is another option to
preserve the tooth socket post extraction.
• It is one of the best ways but the case has to be
carefully analyzed before immediate implant
placement.

14. The severity of the healing pattern may pose
a problem for the clinician in 2 ways:
• It creates an esthetic problem in the fabrication of an
implant-supported restoration or a conventional
prosthesis.
• It may make the placement of an implant
challenging.

15. • However, it is possible to minimize such problems by
simply carrying out ridge preservation procedures
using grafting materials.

16. GOALS OF SOCKET PRESERVATION
• The main goal is to maintain the original anatomy of
the ridge.
• Socket preservation procedure reduces the
possibility of residual ridge resorption near the
extraction site.
• Dental implant placement becomes less difficult
when the socket is well preserved.
• This way maximum bone and soft tissue at the
extraction site is retained.

18. • In order to achieve a predictable esthetic and
functional restoration, it is important to preserve the
width and height of alveolar ridge after extraction of
tooth.
• Following extraction of tooth various patterns of
bone resorption, especially on buccal side, can occur
therefore socket preservation plays a very crucial
role.
• Atraumatic extraction should be performed which
preserves the maximum ridge.

19. • All the latest advances whether it is bone graft, PRF,
collagen plug or immediate implant, for the
preservation of socket which would benefit implant
placement, all are available at our clinic.

21. • Dr.Sachdeva’s Dental Institute is the Best Dental
Clinic in Delhi with 98% success rates in dental
implant placement.
• All dental procedures are carefully performed by
expert professionals.
• Sterilization is given utmost importance at our
centre. So keep your worries and fear aside, as you
will be in safe hands.