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Ridge augmentation using a subepithelial connective tissue pedicle graft
P D Wang1, D P Pitman, H H Jans
1Division of Periodontics, Columbia University, School of Dental and Oral Surgery.
Practical Periodontics and Aesthetic Dentistry : PPAD
|March 1, 1993
Abstract:
The deficient labial ridge can present aesthetic problems for the patient and technical problems for the restorative dentist. The learning objective of this report is a technique for obtaining connective tissue from an adjacent donor site in the form of a pedicle and positioning it beneath a partial thickness flap. The technique offers advantages over previous methods in terms of patient comfort, vascularization of the graft, and specific placement of the grafted connective tissue.