تقييم انكماش الطعم اللثوي الحر

Abstract EN

Background & objective: Inadequate attached gingiva width is the most common problem in poor oral hygiene patients.

There are many techniques for augmentation keratinized gingiva including lateral position flap and coronal flap position with or without graft.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the free graft shrinkage after three months of surgery.

Materials & methods: This study included 15 free gingival graft in 15 healthy good oral hygiene who approved to enroll in this study and who suffeesed from inadequate gingival width in incisors and premolar region.

The graft was harvested from palate of premolar and molar and transferred to recipient side and sutured, gingival recession, attached gingival width, pocket depth and the distance between upper and lower edge of graft and the cementoenaml junction at surgery and three months after it are recorded .

T-test was used to analyses the data.

Results: The results of this study showed shrinkage in dimension of free gingival graft that used to manage attached gingival width, decreasing the average of shrinkage was 0.30±0.97 and the present 18.56±5.95% after three months of surgery .

Conclusion: The free gingival graft was a good technique to manage the inadequate attached gingival width in spite of the secondary shrinkage that occurred after three months of surgery.