Eight days postop, the perio dressing and buccal bone graft have been lost without closure of the buccal cleft (Fig.8 <, as compared to Fig.5).  Ideally, the margin of the immediate provisional (P) should have been extended apically to cover the cleft securely.  Closure of the cleft with suture is not practical, since the tissue was and is erythematous and edematous (*).

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Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 08/12/2015, last revision 02/03/2019