title: Defining biologic width in crown lengthening.
abstract: Clinicians must be very careful when making clinical evaluations of the need for crown lengthening procedures and margin placement and subsequent determinations about the dento-gingival junction and biologic width. Clinicians have tried to standardize a biologic phenomenon and assign the same standard to all patients regardless of the circumstances.
authors.affiliation: Loyola University School of Dentistry, Chicago, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gargiulo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Krajewski
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gargiulo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000539:Alveolar Process / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D016556:Crown Lengthening; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009811:Odontometry / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012016:Reference Values; D019237:Tooth Cervix / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D019228:Tooth Crown / Q000033:anatomy & histology*