CompletedNot Applicable

Micro-surgical Treatment of Gummy Smile

Egypt24 participantsStarted 2020-09-06

Plain-language summary

Compare pain response following microsurgical conventional flap approach using Piezosurgery versus flapless approach for esthetic crown lengthening in management of patients with short clinical crowns in the upper anterior region.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion criteria

✓. Patients with healthy systemic condition.
✓. Adult patients ˃ 18 years old.
✓. The presence of the six upper anterior teeth.
✓. Patients who have short clinical crowns due to altered passive eruption classified as Type I subclass B (Coslet, Vanarsdall and Weisgold, 1977).
✓. Absence of sites with attachment loss and probing depth (PD) \>3 mm.
✓. Keratinized gingiva of at least 2mm width (Pontoriero and Carnevale, 2001).
✓. Compliance with good oral hygiene.
✓. Patients accepts 6-months follow-up period (cooperative patients).

Exclusion criteria

✕. Presence of prosthetic crowns
✕. Extensive restorations
✕. Extensive incisal edge attrition.
✕. Smokers ˃ 10 cigarettes / day
✕. Pregnant females

What they're measuring

Pain VAS

Timeframe: 48 hours

Trial details

NCT IDNCT04401826

SponsorCairo University

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2021-12-06

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