| DENTAL SCIENCE - CASE REPORT |
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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 6 | Page : 819-822 |
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Peri-implant soft tissue management: A case report (2 years follow-up) (Patrick Palacci technique revisited)
VR Balaji1, R Lambodharan2, V Lavanya1
1 Department of Periodontics, CSI College of Dental Sciences and Research, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Department of Prosthodontics, CSI College of Dental Sciences and Research, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Correspondence Address:
V R Balaji
Department of Periodontics, CSI College of Dental Sciences and Research, Madurai, Tamil Nadu
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0975-7406.163589
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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. |
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