A 51-year-old woman with apparent chronic periodontitis (Fig.1) has the teeth #13 and 14 extracted with socket preservation in her home country 3 months earlier (Fig.3,4).  Osteotomy at #13 should be palatal (Fig.3 red line instead of blue one) to obtain more of the apical native bone for primary stability.

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Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 08/03/2018, last revision 08/03/2018