A 27-year-old man requests extraction of the tooth #17.  Immediately following 4Q SRP (Fig.1), a midbuccal incision is made (Fig.2 green line) to reduce the chance of graft exposure in case of wound dehiscence because of  nearly horizontal impaction of #17. 

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Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 06/24/2020, last revision 06/25/2020