With placement of a 2 mm implant at #25 (Fig.8 (>: bone graft buccally)), the buccal plate remains normal in thickness.  When a 3 mm implant is placed at #23 (Fig.9), approximately 4 threads appear to be exposed (between arrowheads), partially due to the thick lingual plate (*).

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Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 07/10/2018, last revision 08/07/2018