A 3.8x18 mm (definitive) implant is placed with <40 Ncm with the implant plateau apical to the lingual crest (Fig.4 (dashed line: upper border of the buccal defect)).  The buccal plate defect is repaired by Vanilla Graft (Fig.6 *) before and after insertion of a 4.5x4(3) mm abutment.  The buccal plate defect seems to being repaired 4 months postop (Fig.7).

Buccal Plate Defect Last Next Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 02/28/2018, last revision 12/03/2018