Evaluation of socket healing after extraction and different possible complications are of the commonest problems that face both dentist and patients. This work was designed to study socket healing radiographically and histologically. This present work was enrolled on Mongrel dogs. Thirty two extraction sockets were grouped according to the cleaning mode of each socket into, saline, water, and tea-irrigated sockets. A fourth group acted as a control group and was not irrigated at all and left to heal normally. The sockets were studied and analyzed histopathologically and radiographically using digital densitometric analysis. The results of this study revealed progression in radiographic bone density during healing of extraction wound with the highest value demonstrated at week 3 after extraction for the saline group, then for the control group at week 4.Histopathological analysis showed that the saline -irrigated sockets demonstrated the highest levels of bone tissue at the end of the study period. From the current study, it could be concluded that there was a histopathological evidence to support the use of sterile saline over water and black tea in e