Inevitable bone resorption after tooth extraction was and still is one of the challenging situations while planning for tooth replacement with dental implants, ever since implants were introduced as a treatment to replace extracted teeth, the availability of bone in both vertical and horizontal dimension -not only to receive an implant but also to position it in a prosthetically correct position- has become a major concern for implantologists, another increasingly demanding criteria for implants success is the esthetic outcome that also depends on the availability of adequate hard and soft tissue volume to ensure esthetically pleasing emergence profile, many studies introduced treatments modalities to preserve or compensate for lost tissues, none of which could achieve complete preservation of alveolar bone volume following tooth extraction, until Hurzeler et al. published in 2010 their pilot study of socket shield technique, in which a buccal tooth fragment was left in situ during tooth extraction and implant insertion, their technique was further investigated and modified by many researchers showing promising outcomes, in our report we present a split mouth case of a modification of socket shield in which a whole root is left in situ buccal to the implant in one side and a conventional implant insertion on the other.