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Soft Tissue Grafting To Improve Implant Esthetics, Moawi M. Kassab
Soft Tissue Grafting To Improve Implant Esthetics, Moawi M. Kassab
School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications
Dental implants are becoming the treatment of choice to replace missing teeth, especially if the adjacent teeth are free of restorations. When minimal bone width is present, implant placement becomes a challenge and often resulting in recession and dehiscence around the implant that leads to subsequent gingival recession. To correct such defect, the author turned to soft tissue autografting and allografting to correct a buccal dehiscence around tooth #24 after a malpositioned implant placed by a different surgeon. A 25-year-old woman presented with the chief complaint of gingival recession and exposure of implant threads around tooth #24. The patient received …