Predictability of root coverage procedures: clinical scenarios and evidence-based treatment options

– Understanding the individual needs of the patient

– Recessions: indications for treatment

– Miller's classification of recessions

– Methods of closing gingival recessions:

- A group with a laterally positioned flap

- A group with a coronally advanced flap

- A group using a free gingival graft

- A group with the use of a subepithelial connective tissue graft.

– Predictability of treatment depending on the treatment plan

– Factors affecting the prognosis of treatment

– Treatment of Class I and II recessions according to Miller: the gold standard procedure

– Tissue healing after the closure of recessions in smokers

– Treatment of recessions of class III and IV according to Miller: the choice of treatment method

– Risk factors for the closure of the exposed root

– The value of the thickness of the keratinized gum for predicting treatment

– Methods of gingival phenotype modification

– Long-term stability of the gingival margin: factors

– Non carious cervical defects: treatment methods

– Treatment of multiple recessions: the use of allogeneic and xenogenic transplants

– Principles of connective tissue graft sampling.

Recommended for: Implantologist, Periodontist, General dentists.