Although the patient appreciates that the pain is gone, there is atrophy mesiobuccally 2 months postop (Fig.7 *).  The implant seems to be have been placed too buccally (Fig.8).  With loss of the buccal plate, the implant should be placed away from it to prevent periimplantitis.

Shorter Implant Less Pain Last Next Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 03/10/2018, last revision 09/02/2018