Bernd Heinz / Søren Jepsen
Covering a Recession with a Soft Tissue Transplant
Category: Periodontics, Surgery
Language(s): English, German
Publication year: 2005
Video source: Quintessence Practice Live
Series: Quintessence Practice Live
Objectives: Use of a soft tissue graft for recession coverage at
tooth 23 and for gingival augmentation
Content
- Incision around tooth 23, intra-sulcular preparation, mobilization of
coronal sliding flap, and pre-flap preparation.
- Root smoothing, reduction of ground cavity with diamond burs from Perioset
system.
- Preparation and harvesting of connective tissue flap from palate, Emdogain
application, and wound closure.
- Placement of interrupted interdental sutures for fixation of connective
tissue flap.
