“…Several studies, including the present study, have demonstrated the effect of ARP specifically in molar areas (Cha et al, ; Lombardi et al, ; Walker et al, ; Zhao, Xu, Hu, & Chung, ). All of these studies favoured ARP over natural healing in terms of maintaining ridge dimension, but high heterogeneity among studies should be considered (Cha et al, ; Lombardi et al, ; Walker et al, ; Zhao et al, ), such as jaw and socket morphology, biomaterial, surgical technique (flap reflection and primary flap closure), healing period, and measurement (reference line and measurement level). Concerns over such heterogeneity were also stated well in recent systematic reviews (Avila‐Ortiz et al, ; Bassir et al, ; Troiano et al, ).…”