The buccal crest is lower when the tooth is extracted (Fig.4).  Following trajectory confirmation (Fig.2), a 2.5x12(2) mm implant is placed a little deeper than expected to ensure no implant thread exposure with bone graft (Fig.3,5).

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Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 08/02/2019, last revision 12/06/2019