Talk:Alveolar ridge

This article has potential, but not as it is

It has good information in it, has a lot of room for improvement. A lot of it requires cleanup. I marked it so someone else can better repair it. I don't know the subject or the format for cleaning articles up very well. Maybe something from Gray's Anatomy could be added to this. Uses personal pronouns a lot. I dont know where to start. -Indalcecio 14:57, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

let it never be...

dear lord let it never be that wikipedia should explain somthing so that the amature or layman might undersatnd i removed the silly "how to" tag whose main purpose apperes to be a request that the material be made more obscure and "scholerly"

Illustration

I added an image from wikimedia commons and captioned it. I was confused at where my alveolar ridge was exactly, so I figured an illustration would help me and others. I'm not super happy with the image, but it serves its purpose. Please feel free to substitute a better image. --Ianboggs (talk) 06:31, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Those little ridges...

What.. what are those for?

Merge or Redirect?

Should this be merged with or redirected to alveolar process? In that article, "alveolar ridge" is given as a synonym for "alveolar process". If they are separate things, what is the distinction?209.7.195.158 (talk) 15:54, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

I see no clear distinction other than how the feature is discussed. (I found the "ridge" article while reading about alveoloplasty.) If there's any specific reason for using either term in specific contexts, that can simply be discussed on the shared article. But both articles describe their subject as the bulge that contains the tooth sockets. Perhaps "ridge" is preferred for describing the inside of the mouth, but that seems not to be based on any medical source, merely how the article was written at one point. UpdateNerd (talk) 14:18, 20 June 2022 (UTC)