A narrower abutment is able to be seated apparently completely while a metal post (Fig.7 *) is tried in in the distal root of #18. To reduce the chance of re-fracture of #18 crown, the tooth #15 needs to be distalized orthodontically so that an implant will be placed at #14 (Fig.5).
Healing Abutment Last Next Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 08/05/2020, last revision 08/05/2020