Following tissue punch, bone trimmer cannot cut the crestal bone at #19.  Pointed drill is used without flattening the pointed, hard crestal bone (both cortical and cancellous, Fig.1, as compared to Fig.2 (preop CT coronal section)).

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Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 08/27/2018, last revision 08/28/2018