be tapped to their proper depth, figs. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. A tissue punch is sometimes used when too much tissue exists near a blade post, figs. 19, 20. In this manner, when the tissue is approximating the implant post, it makes for easier suturing and neater adaptation of the tissues them-selves, figs. 21, 22. Healing is rapid and usually uneventful, fig. 23. Often, if the posts did not have to be ground down for paralleling, prefabricated plastic copings are fitted over the posts, fig. 24, and picked up with a plaster impression, fig. 25, for construction of the gold framework, in this case for acrylic teeth, figs. 26, 27, 28. An interocclusal record of centric relationship is taken with a heavy silicone material (Input), figs. 29, 30. At the last visit the healed tissues,

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