Defining biologic width in crown lengthening.
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.
Gargiulo
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Loyola University School of Dentistry, Chicago, USA.
Krajewski
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Gargiulo
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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*