Socket Preservation - A Case Report

Post the extraction of a tooth, there is alveolar bone resorption in that area, which leads to further complications in terms of prosthetic and surgical situations when the tooth needs to be replaced.To serve this problem of dimensional reduction of alveolar bone around the missing tooth, socket preservation offers an ideal solution.This case report discusses the extraction of a root-canal treated right mandibular molar which was extracted atraumatically by hemisectioning the tooth and preserving the inter-radicular bone followed by grafting the socket with demineralized freeze dried bone allograft and PerioCol membrane.After a healing period of 3-months a CBCT scan was done to evaluate the regeneration of the grafted site and bone fill.This brings us to a conclusion that grafting the socket post-extraction, helps reduce the dimensional changes for better prosthetic rehabilitation.