1. Smile Designing :
For correction of uneven gum margins, excessive gingival display, or uneven teeth alignment correction of gums as well as teeth followed by crown or veneer placement.
Smile designing focuses on improving the appearance of your smile through certain procedures such as veneer, composites, Teeth whitening, Dental Implant.
2. Crown lengthening procedure :
To increase the height of the tooth crown by cutting the gums or and bone surrounding the tooth. This enables the increased tooth height to receive a full crown. Generally more height is required for a full ceramic or porcelain fused to metal crown.
3. Techniques to increase the width of attached Gingiva :
Apically displaced flap, free gingival graft, connective tissue graft harvested from the palate & sutured on the recipient site.
4. Root Coverage Procedures :
For covering the exposed tooth surface to gum recession percentage generally complain of sensitive teeth, difficulty in brushing & unpleasant appearance.
5. Gingival (Gum) Depigmentation :
The normal colour of healthy gums is variables, ranging from pale pink to a deep bluish purple. Gingival hyperpigmentation is increased. Pigmentation in the form of brown black spots, streaks or thick bands on the attached gingiva.
The most common cause is physiologic / racial, due to excessive melanin deposition by melanocytes, which are present in superficial layers of the gums. It is a common esthetic concern, which is aggregated in patients with a gummy smile or excessive gingival display.
