When the tooth #4 with vertical root fracture (Fig.1) is extracted, the buccal plate is found to be lost.  The lowest point of the defect is shown as black dashed line in Fig.2 (yellow dashed line: sinus floor).

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Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 10/20/2017, last revision 12/03/2018