Gamuts

Localized cortical bone thickening

The alveolar process () (also called the alveolar bone) is the thickened ridge of bone that contains the tooth sockets (dental alveoli) on the jaw bones that hold teeth. In humans, the tooth-bearing bones are the maxilla and the mandible. [Source: Wikipedia ]

May Be Caused by
 Common
Battered child syndrome
Bowed bones
Garré sclerosing osteomyelitis
Healed fracture
Healing fracture
Healing yaws
Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
Lymphatic stasis
Mycetoma
Osteoid osteoma
Osteomyelitis with involucrum
Paget disease of bone
Syphilis
Traumatic periostitis
Venous stasis
 Uncommon
Angiomatosis
Bone neoplasm
Caffey disease
Enchondroma
Fibrous dysplasia
Hemangioma
Hypervitaminosis A
Klippel-Trénaunay-Weber syndrome
Low-grade chondrosarcoma
Melorheostosis
Pachydermoperiostosis
Parkes Weber syndrome
Sickle cell disease
Subperiosteal hemorrhage
Thyroid acropachy
Tropical ulcer osteoma

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