After initial placement of a 3.8x18 mm implant with insertion torque >60 Ncm (Fig.6), the implant is placed ~2 mm more apically (Fig.9 arrow) with placement of a 4.5x5(4) mm abutment and mineralized allograft (*).  The extracted crown is hollowed and fabricated as an immediate provisional (C).

Hollowed Crown Last Next Fig.8 Fig.10 Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 08/31/2017, last revision 11/18/2018