alveolar periostitis
MONDO:0001752Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names alveolar periostitis yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A condition sometimes occurring after tooth extraction, particularly after traumatic extraction, resulting in a dry appearance of the exposed bone in the socket, due to disintegration or loss of the blood clot. It is basically a focal osteomyelitis without suppuration and is accompanied by severe pain (alveolalgia) and foul odor. (Dorland, 28th ed)
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0001752), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
4 names
Resolves to: alveolar periostitis
- Also called
- alveolitis of jawdry socketextrinsic allergic alveolitis of jaw skeletonjaw skeleton extrinsic allergic alveolitis