Alveolitis: review of the literature
Laraki, M.; Chbicheb, S.; El Wady, W.
Odonto-Stomatologie Tropicale 35(139): 19-25
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 0251-172X PMID: 23316597 Document Number: 663583
Alveolitis are infectious complications following the dental extraction. They appear under two forms: dry, characterized by a painful syndrome and uninhabited alveolus, and suppurative, which becomes identified by provoked pain and alveolus filled. Their etiopathogenesis remain a subject of interrogation because of the rarity of studies concerning this complication. Nevertheless, treatment is mainly favorable by a sedation of the pain and the startup of a physiological healing. From this article, we are going to review their clinical forms, their etiology as well as the followed treatment.