🌟 PERIODONTICS-ORAL SURGERY RELATIONSHIP

📌 POINTS TO PONDER

🔹Teeth should be extracted in an atraumatic manner to conserve alveolar bone.

🔹Clinicians should avoid applying pressure at the crest of the socket to compress the rim of the alveolar bone as it results in the collapse of the remaining buccal plate of the bone and also hastens the formation of a deformity within the ridge.

📣 We can divide the perio-oral surgery relationship into two main headings:

🔸Inadvertent injury to periodontium during oral surgical procedures

🔸Spread of infection during oral surgical procedures

📣 The most common oral surgical procedures that can cause inadvertent injury to periodontium include: