title: The management of mucosal fenestration: a report of two cases.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report on the management of two patients with mucosal fenestration of root apices.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Two cases of mucosal fenestration of root apices were treated by a combination of nonsurgical root canal treatment and surgery. Root-end resection was performed to bring the root apices within the alveolus before root-end filling and packing of the bony defects with demineralized freeze-dried bone allograft. The areas were then covered with connective tissue grafts taken from the hard palate before repositioning the mucogingival flap. At 1 year follow-up, the mucosal fenestrations were completely healed by soft tissue graft coverage, and radiographs revealed bony healing.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  * Connective tissue grafts can be used to manage mucosal fenestration. * Periradicular surgery and connective tissue grafts can be used in combination.
authors.affiliation: Divison of Endodontics, Department of Dentistry, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan. kam@vghtc.gov.tw
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: C T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tong
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016301:Alveolar Bone Loss / Q000601:surgery*; D001047:Apicoectomy; D003238:Connective Tissue / Q000637:transplantation; D003719:Dens in Dente / Q000150:complications; D003790:Dental Pulp Necrosis / Q000601:surgery; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005881:Gingiva / Q000637:transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000637:transplantation; D010482:Periapical Abscess / Q000601:surgery; D010483:Periapical Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D010485:Periapical Periodontitis / Q000601:surgery; D012184:Retrograde Obturation; D012390:Root Canal Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D019227:Tooth Apex / Q000473:pathology*; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology