  We explore the effect of including quantum fluctuations in the two flavor
Nambu$-$Jona-Lasinio model at finite temperature. This is accomplished, in a
symmetry preserving way, by including collective and noncollective modes in the
one-meson-loop gap equation which originate from poles and branch cuts in the
complex plane, respectively. The inclusion of a boson cutoff, $\Lambda_b$, is
necessary to regularize the meson-loop momenta. This new parameter is used to
study the influence of going beyond the usual mean field approximation in the
quark condensate. As the temperature increases, chiral symmetry tends to get
restored, the collective modes melt and only noncollective modes contribute to
the quark condensate. With the inclusion of such modes, the quark condensate at
finite temperature has a different behavior than at mean field level that will
be explored.
