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Maloccluded and misaligned teeth?

April 26, 2017misaligned teeth

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Maloccluded and misaligned teeth?

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When treating recession by gum grafting, the causative factor must also be addressed in order for the grafting procedure to be successful. What are the different types of Gum Grafts? 1. Soft tissue graft: There are many types of soft tissue grafts. This type of graft involves taking a small piece of tissue from the surface skin on the roof of the mouth and transplanting it to areas in the mouth that are lacking. This type of graft restores and augments the missing thick keratinized gingiva, but does not result in covering of the exposed root. 2. Connective Tissue Graft: In this procedure tissue is taken from the undersurface of the palatal tissue (roof of the mouth) via tiny incisions, and is used to not only restore missing thick keratinized gum tissue, but also used to cover exposed roots of the teeth. What are the types of bone graft? 1. autogenous – bone taken from one area of the patient and transplanted to another area requiring such grafting 2. allograft – either synthetic bone