ArticleBritish dental journal2018
A guide to minimally invasive crown lengthening and tooth preparation for rehabilitating pink and white aesthetics.
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- Treatment of excessive gingival display using conventional esthetic crown lengthening versus computer guided esthetic crown lengthening: (a randomized clinical trial).BMC oral health · 2024Trial
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- Interdisciplinary Management of Supracrestal Tissue Attachment Violation: A 5-Year Follow-Up Case Report.Case reports in dentistry · 2026Article
- Tooth show enhancement in the esthetic zone: a review and proposal a decision-making framework.The Saudi dental journal · 2025Review
- A comparative study of radiofrequency and diode laser assisted crown lengthening procedure with clinical and patient centered outcomes.BMC oral health · 2025Article
- Effectiveness and Personalized Approaches in the Correction of Gummy Smile: A Systematic Review of Orthodontic and Surgical Treatments.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Accuracy of three types of digital guides for crown lengthening surgery: An in vitro study.Journal of dental sciences · 2024Article
- Cytomorphometric and Clinical Changes in Gingival Tissue after Subgingival Tooth Preparation-A Pilot Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Effect of CAD/CAM Guide Plate Combined With Socket-Shield Technique in Immediate Implantation of Anterior Teeth Aesthetic Area and Its Influence on Aesthetics.Frontiers in surgery · 2021Article
- Correction of Gingival Architecture Using the Biologically Oriented Preparation Technique in Two Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus.Case reports in dentistry · 2020Article
- Minimal invasive microscopic tooth preparation in esthetic restoration: a specialist consensus.International journal of oral science · 2019Article
- Should we fear direct oral anticoagulants more than vitamin K antagonists in simple single tooth extraction? A prospective comparative study.Clinical oral investigations · 2019Article
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Abstract
The rehabilitation of anterior dental aesthetics involves a multitude of disciplines, each with its own methodologies for achieving a predefined goal. The literature is awash with different techniques for a given predicament, based on both scientific credence, as well as empirical clinical judgements. An example is crown lengthening for correcting uneven gingival zeniths, increasing clinical crown lengths, and therefore, reducing the amount of maxillary gingival display that detracts from pleasing pink aesthetics. Many procedures have been advocated for rectifying gingival anomalies depending on prevailing clinical scenarios and aetiology. This paper presents a minimally invasive technique for crown lengthening for short clinical crowns concurrent with excessive maxillary gingival display, which is expedient, maintaining the inter-proximal papilla, mitigating morbidity, reducing post-operative inflammation, and increasing patient comfort. In addition, with a similar ethos, a minimally invasive tooth preparation approach is presented for achieving optimal white aesthetics.
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