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Adjunctive Diode Laser Therapy and Probiotic Lactobacillus Therapy in the Treatment of Periodontitis and Peri-Implant Disease
Published on: May 9, 2022
[Plastic periodontal surgery]
1Afdeling Parodontologie, sector Parodontologie en biomaterialen, van het Universitair Medisch Centrum Sint Radbound in Nijmegen. j.kleinfelder@dent.umcn.nl
Abstract:
In this article some indications and procedures of mucogingival and plastic periodontal surgery are reviewed. Frenectomy, vestibulary extension and free gingival graft, which all are widely used among periodontitsts, are described. In the second part of this review different surgical methods for covering recession-like periodontal defects are discussed. The clinical results of coronally advanced flap, connective tissue graft, and guided tissue regeneration are compared. The preference of the Nijmegen periodontal clinic to use coronally advanced flap--with or without connective tissue graft--is explained.

