In cases where "flabby" tissue exists, fig. 20, somewhere during the first or second surgical phase these tissues must be reduced for future success of the implant. The tissues are incised and reflected, fig. 21, and at the end of the same day the implant is placed into position, figs. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, and the tissues are sutured, fig. 27. The healed tissues no longer reveal the original "flabbiness", fig. 28. The superstructure framework is placed over the posts, fig. 29, an inter-occlusal record of centric relationship is then taken and the framework is picked up with an alginate, fig. 30, or with one of the medium bodied elastic impression materials. An accurate impression of the healed soft tissues in between the posts must be produced.

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