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The partial extraction therapies (PET) date all the way back to the 1970’s when the submerging of tooth roots aimed to preserve the alveolar ridge beneath full dentures. Today, the full scope of PET includes several, evidence-based techniques, that use the patient’s own tissues to prevent post-extraction ridge resorption. This lecture outlines a timeline of the research milestones that have occurred, past to present, that have established PET in our treatment milieu as we know it today.