Bone Graft To Save RPD Abutment

A 70-year-old man has poor dentition, needing extraction for dentures (including #2 and 3 in Fig.1).  To save the abutment tooth #1 (with severe bone loss) for RPD and to stop hemorrhage, allograft and Osteogen Plug are placed at #2 and Collagen Plug at #3.  Five-O PGA sutures remain in place 9 days postop (Fig.3).

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Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 10/07/2019, last revision 10/19/2019