1. Consensus Report: Mucogingival Deformities and Conditions Around Teeth
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Isao Ishikawa, Jan L. Wennström, Giovan Paolo Pini Prato, William W. Hallmon, Brian L. Mealey, Michael K. McGuire, Gordon L. Douglass, Alan M. Polson, Robert G. Schallhorn, Myron Nevins, and Timothy M. Blieden
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Orthodontics ,business.industry ,Alveolar process ,General Medicine ,Periodontology ,stomatognathic diseases ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,stomatognathic system ,medicine ,Deformity ,Oral mucosa ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Gingival recession ,Dental alveolus ,Alveolar mucosa ,Gingival margin - Abstract
of the oral mucosa that covers the alveolar process including the gingiva (keratinized tissue) and the adjacent alveolar mucosa. Mucogingival deformity. A departure from the normal dimension and morphology of and/or interrelationship between gingiva and alveolar mucosa. The abnormality may be associated with a deformity of the underlying alveolar bone. The group endorsed the definition of mucogingival therapy as described in the 1996 World Workshop in Periodontics (i.e., “Non-surgical and surgical correction of defects in morphology, position, and/or amount of soft tissue and underlying bone.”).1 In addition the current definition of gingival recession was also endorsed (i.e., “Location of the gingival margin apical to the cemento-enamel junction.”).2 Note: The group recommended that a classification system for mucogingival deformities around dental implants be similar to the one suggested above for teeth (i.e., “I. Mucogingival Deformities Around Teeth”). The group also recommended that the current classification of implant-related conditions (e.g., peri-implantitis) be retained until a new classification system for implant-related issues can be formulated.
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- 1999