Ridge Preservation Comparing the Clinical and Histologic Healing of Flap vs. Flapless Approach to Grafting

Thirty patients will be treated using the principles of guided bone regeneration and ridge preservation. Fifteen test patients will receive the flapless technique with an intrasocket cancellous cortical particulate allograft plus a facial overlay graft using a bovine xenograft plus Alloderm GBR. The positive control group of fifteen patients will receive the flap technique with an intrasocket cancellous cortical particulate allograft plus a facial overlay graft using a bovine xenograft plus Alloderm GBR. Approximately, four months post-surgery, a trephine core will be taken from the grafted site immediately prior to implant placement and submitted for histologic processing.