Gingival reattachment on carious tooth surfaces. A 4-year follow-up.
This paper reports the healing after 4 years of a flap coronally repositioned over carious lesions on teeth 23 and 24. Four years postoperatively, the gain of clinical gingival attachment was 4 mm for tooth 23 and 3.6 mm for tooth 24. The carious lesions were covered by soft tissue and a gain of clinical gingival attachment was obtained.
D003731:Dental Caries / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005881:Gingiva / Q000502:physiology*; D005882:Gingival Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D005893:Gingivoplasty; D006801:Humans; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013997:Time Factors; D014945:Wound Healing