Table 4. Buccal bone thickness of implants placed with the SST versus implants placed with the standard technique.

Authors and year	No. of patients (implants)	Buccal bone thickness (mm)
Sun et al. 2020 [23]	30	1.15±0.2
		0.83±0.13
Tiwari et al. 2019 [24]	16	1.14±0.2
		0.98±0.17

SST: socket shield technique.