Keratinized Gingiva Height Increases After Alveolar Corticotomy and Augmentation Bone Grafting.

Background: The aim of the present study is to compare the keratinized gingival tissue (KT) height labial to the mandibular incisors after active orthodontic treatment (AOT) with and without alveolar corticotomy and bone grafting.

Methods: Two orthodontically treated groups of 35 patients each, with (Cort) and without (Conv) alveolar decortication and augmentation bone grafting, are matched in this case-control study for sample size, sex, mandibular premolar extractions, pretreatment age, post-treatment observation period, and pretreatment KT height. Standardized digital frontal occlusion photographs taken before and at least 1 year after AOT were adjusted to 96 dots per inch and measured with image analysis software for vertical KT height labial to each mandibular incisor.

Mandibular irregularity index stability following alveolar corticotomy and grafting: a 10-year preliminary study.

Objective: To evaluate mandibular irregularity index stability following orthodontic treatment facilitated by alveolar corticotomy and augmentation bone grafting (Cort+).

Materials And Methods: The irregularity index of 121 orthodontically treated and 15 untreated patient study casts was analyzed at 5 years and 10 years.

Results: Cort+ resulted in significantly lower mandibular irregularity index scores at both 5 years (1.

Accelerated osteogenic orthodontics technique: a 1-stage surgically facilitated rapid orthodontic technique with alveolar augmentation.

Purpose: Demineralization of a thin layer of bone over a root prominence after corticotomy surgery can optimize the response to applied orthodontic forces. This physiologic response is consistent with the regional acceleratory phenomenon process. When combined with alveolar augmentation, one is no longer strictly at the mercy of the original alveolar volume and osseous dehiscences, and fenestrations can be corrected over vital root surfaces.

[Alveolar osteotomy and rapid orthodontic treatments].

When combined with orthodontics, selective periodontal decortication has been shown to be clinically effective in eliminating severe malocclusions three to four times more rapidly than conventional orthodontic treatment. Our technique combines surgical scarring of the cortical bone on both labial and lingual sides of the teeth to be moved, with an augmentation graft to increase alveolar volume. Alveolar spongiosa undergoes rapid transformation as the body attempts to heal the wounds to the cortices resulting in marked tissue turnover.

Full-thickness flap/subepithelial connective tissue grafting with intramarrow penetrations: three case reports of lingual root coverage.

Three case reports are presented that demonstrate the use of full-thickness flap/subepithelial connective tissue grafting for root coverage on the lingual surfaces of the mandibular anterior teeth. This is accomplished using an envelope full-thickness flap technique with intramarrow penetrations at the recipient site. Miller Class I, II, and III gingival recession defects and gingival perforation defects were treated.