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Plastic Gum Surgery
Do your front teeth appear too small when you smile and a large part of your gums are exposed?
For various reasons, some people experience gingival hyperplasia, that is, they have Do your front teeth appear too small when you smile excessive gum tissue that covers a large part of the tooth’s crown. In other cases, gums have just not moved into their final position.
This clinical condition is called “gummy smile” and usually is a cosmetic problem that negatively affects appearance of your teeth. By lowering the gum line, it makes the teeth appear smaller and your smile less attractive.
- Gingivoplasty/gingivoplasty is the name given to the small surgical correction of the gum morphology in the aesthetic zone (6 upper front teeth).
- We are essentially removing excess gum tissue so that the gum line can rise higher towards the root.
- It is a painless procedure with little or no post-operative pain and an immediately visible aesthetic result.
- In some cases, sutures are not required.
Root Coverage - Microplastic Surgery
Exposed root coverage is a plastic microsurgery procedure used to restore receding gums making the teeth appear longer and exposing part of the tooth root.
This operation is applied both for aesthetic and preventive reasons, since the exposed roots have a negative effect on the symmetry and aesthetic image of the smile but are also prone to caries and tooth sensitivity.
The periodontist takes a graft of gingival tissue usually from the patient’s palate and places it in the area of the root that needs to be covered. The gingival graft is fixed with sutures and is gradually assimilated by the surrounding tissues.
The operation is simple and painless and is performed using magnification or a microscope, under local anesthesia and only requires a painkiller before the anesthesia wears off. The patient should expect slight swelling in the area for the first two days. The possibility of rejection of the transplant by the body is very small.
Of course, before starting this treatment, the necessary periodontal or other treatments must have been done.
This surgical procedure restores the loss of gingival tissue preventing at the same time further loss as well as restores the aesthetic image of the teeth.
