Departmental Papers (Dental)

Document Type

Technical Report

Date of this Version

3-2006

Publication Source

Journal of the Korean Academy of Periodontology

Volume

36

Issue

1

Start Page

239

Last Page

251

DOI

10.5051/jkape.2006.36.1.239

Abstract

Mucogingival surgery is a plastic surgical procedure designed to correct defects in the morphology, position, and dimensions of the gingiva surrounding the teeth. Many surgical techniques have been reported in mucogingival surgery. Since these procedures also include the soft tissue esthetic approach, the term "periodontal plastic surgery" has been proposed to be more appropriate.1 Root coverage is a procedure that falls with this definition, and it has attracted more interest than others.

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This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.

Comments

This item was published when Dr. Jeon was affiliated with Ewha Womans University, but she is now a faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Date Posted: 05 May 2018

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