With one carpule of Xylocaine (34 mg with 17 mcg of Epinephrine), a 5x8.5 mm implant is placed at #19 in a timely and painless manner.  The patient is pleased as compared to her previous implant placement at #3 and 30.  Due to the thin buccal bone, the implant is placed ~.5 mm deeper than designed; a 6.5x4(2) mm healing abutment is incompletely seated (Fig.1).  A smaller and skinny one (5.5x7(4) mm) is seated normally (Fig.2).

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Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 02/22/2019, last revision 02/22/2019