A 49-year-old man is an engineer.  The tooth #14 is missing (Fig.1,2).  He wonders how a one-rooted implant can replace a three-rooted tooth.  Anyway, osteotomy is initiated at the site with 2.5 mm reamer in place (Fig.3).

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Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 12/13/2015, last revision 06/06/2020