“…Alternative methods to better retain immobility after surgical placement of conventionally designed dental implants have been suggested (Martinez et al., ), including under‐preparation in diameter of an osteotomy, or the placement of a tapered implant into a cylindrical osteotomy, thereby compressing the cortical bone coronally (O'Sullivan et al., ). Several in vitro studies show that the relative gain of under‐preparation in terms of increased insertion torque or RFA values can be increased by 50%–100%, dependent on the discrepancy between the osteotomy and implant body diameters (Campos et al., ). In contrast, the comparative studies in Table describe the differences between the tapered versus non‐tapered designs up to maximum 10% at baseline in terms of implant insertion torque (O'Sullivan, Sennerby & Meredith, ; Kielbassa Kielbasa , Park et al., ; Torroella‐Saura et al., ; Stanford et al., ) or RFA values (Friberg et al., ; Kim, Lee, Lee & Yi, ; Markovic et al., ; McCullough & Klokkevold, ; O'Sullivan, Sennerby, Jagger & Meredith, ; Östman, Hellman & Sennerby, ; Park et al., ; Simmons et al., ; Waechter et al., ).…”