Investigate New Surgical Techniques to Improve Esthetics and Patient Satisfaction at Implant Sites

Many techniques have been proposed to prevent or rather minimize the labial bone resorption following extraction including guided bone regeneration techniques that has been attempted for many years now to preserve the alveolar ridge dimensions . Immediate implant placement, flapless implant placement, palataly positioned implants and even platform switching. However none of these methods were able to completely preserve the coronal part of the facial bone wall, and since the main reason of bone loss following extraction is the loss of the periodontal ligament, it seemed logical that root retention may affect the resorption process,The reason the root retention technique works in its different applications is due to the maintenance of the periodontal attachment including cementum, periodontal ligaments and bundle bone, this principle was used by Hurzeler in 2010 in a technique called socket shied technique.