alveolar resorption

1. 1.

   wasting of the bony socket

   Broaderperiodontal disease

Questions about alveolar resorption

What does alveolar resorption mean?

alveolar resorption means "wasting of the bony socket".

Is alveolar resorption a common word?

alveolar resorption is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.