A 34-year-old woman requests extraction of #1, 16 and 32 (Fig.1).  After incision for 32, surgical bur is used to create purchase point to protect the thin bone between #31 and 32.  The tooth is extracted with straight elevators (placed between the buccal bone and the impacted tooth) and forceps.  The socket is large single.  Osteogen plug is placed with 4-0 plain gut suture (x4).

Cortex Last Next Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 10/12/2019, last revision 10/12/2019