The healing socket and socket regeneration.

Tooth extraction is a common procedure in dentistry. The normal healing response to the procedure results in a significant loss of bone and collapse of the surrounding gingiva. In addition to normal healing, a substantial percentage of extraction sites suffer postoperative complications. This article presents histology that supports the concept that the first response to extraction is bone death and resorption of the socket wall. The stages of extraction socket healing also will be discussed. Additionally, the article will present a regenerative method that skips the resorptive phase, the clotting phase, the granulation of tissue phase, and the collagen-producing phase of normal extraction-socket healing, while avoiding extraction-socket complications.