Incision shows the atrophic buccal plate at #7 (Fig.2 arrowheads); to prevent the same feature from happening at #6 with thin buccal plate after extraction, the most buccal portion of the root should be preserved (*, socket shield).

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Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 01/06/2017, last revision 03/04/2020