An abutment is placed; a provisional is fabricated, a premolar band is tried in and cemented (Fig.4: #30, .020" stainless steel wire).  Next visit, the implant will be used as an anchorage to distalize #29 and 28 (arrow) so that there is enough space to restore the distal defect of #27 (*).

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Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 09/07/2014, last revision 09/27/2014