The patient feels pain when larger drills are being used.  Marcaine has to be injected in an infiltration manner for pain control.  When a 4.5x10 mm dummy implant is inserted with 55 Ncm, the end of the osteotomy (Fig.3 white line) is close to the Inferior Alveolar Canal (red dashed line).

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Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 01/12/2018, last revision 09/02/2018