Surgical treatment of localized gingival recessions using coronally advanced flaps with or without subepithelial connective tissue graft.

Background: A coronally advanced flap with subepithelial connective tissue graft is the gold standard surgical treatment of gingival recessions, since it offers a higher probability of achieving complete root coverage compared with other techniques. However, optimum short- and middle-term clinical results have also been obtained with coronally advanced flaps alone. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the results obtained by the surgical treatment of localized gingival recessions using coronally advanced flaps with or without subepithelial connective tissue graft.

Temperature of periimplant tissues in clinically successful implants: an observational clinical study in humans.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate periimplant tissue temperature in a successful implant. It has been shown that periimplant disease and mucositis are inflammatory diseases. As such, one of the main clinical signs is the change in temperature.

Presence of aspartate aminotransferase in peri-implant crevicular fluid with and without mucositis.

The aim of this study was to assess the presence of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) in peri-implant crevicular fluid, with or without clinical signs of mucositis, to determine its predictive diagnostic value, sensitivity, and specificity. The AST levels were determined (at a threshold of 1200 µIU/mL) for 60 clinically successful implants in 25 patients with or without peri-implant mucositis. Samples were taken prior (AST1) to peri-implant probing with a manual constant-pressure probe (0.