title: Peri-implant soft tissue management: A case report (2 years follow-up) (Patrick Palacci technique revisited).
abstract: Peri-implant plastic surgery aims at improving the esthetic aspects of smile and masticatory function. Over the years, several techniques such as tissue punch technique, full thickness flaps, and scalloping adjustment of flaps around implants have been employed; it was very difficult to achieve a papilla like formation around implants. These added time and expense of the final results and led to undesirable complications. In order to overcome these difficulties, this case report describes a surgical technique where in papilla like formation and increase in width of attached gingiva around implants can be achieved with a single surgical procedure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Periodontics, CSI College of Dental Sciences and Research, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: V R
authors.initials: VR
authors.lastname: Balaji
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, CSI College of Dental Sciences and Research, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lambodharan
authors.affiliation: Department of Periodontics, CSI College of Dental Sciences and Research, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lavanya
keywords: Gingiva; implant; peri-implant esthetics; peri-implant surgery