The socket looks large when osteotomy is finished for
a 3.8 mm implant. Without further osteotomy, a 4.5x14 mm SM implant is
placed with primary stability (Fig.2). Without much attention, the coronal
end of the implant is gradually deviated buccal, although the buccal gap is
still 2 mm. The bone graft seems to have disappeared 3.5 months postop;
the implant appears to have not been placed deep enough (Fig.6). In fact
the implant plateau is < 2 mm subgingival palatal. An anterior immediate
implant should be placed deep to reduce periimplantitis. There is reduced
risk associated with abutment screw loosening, as compared to the posterior.
Luckily the patient has used water pik since implant placement. On the
other hand, water pik may be related to loss of bone graft. Therefore,
water pik should be used 1 month post bone graft associated with immediate
implant. The bone graft remains around the abutment cuff 4 months postop
(Fig.7; immediately
post cementation).
Palatal Osteotomy Last Next Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 07/18/2019, last revision 07/19/2019