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ArticleJournal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons2021

A novel amnion-chorion allograft membrane combined with a coronally advanced flap: a minimally invasive surgical therapy to regenerate interdental papillary soft tissue recession - a six-month postoperative image analysis-based clinical trial.

Unnati Pitale, Pritish Chandra Pal, Ramanarayana Boyapati, Ashish Bali, Manish Varma, Shaleen Khetarpal

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Article in Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Unnati PitaleDepartment of Periodontics, Modern Dental College & Research Centre, Indore, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2492-4286
Pritish Chandra PalDepartment of Periodontics, Pacific Dental College and Hospital, Udaipur, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7654-7649
Ramanarayana BoyapatiDepartment of Periodontology, Sibar Institute of Dental Sciences, Guntur, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9196-0183
Ashish BaliDepartment of Periodontics, Pacific Dental College and Hospital, Udaipur, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1618-3959
Manish VarmaDepartment of Periodontics, Govt. College of Dentistry, Indore, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0438-7586
Shaleen KhetarpalDepartment of Periodontics, Govt. College of Dentistry, Indore, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1437-4241
Pacific Dental College and Hospital · INKamineni Institute of Dental Sciences · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesLoss of the interdental papilla is multi-factorial and creates a multitude of problems. Autogenous connective tissue/biomaterial-based regeneration has been attempted for decades to reconstitute the black space created due to the loss of papilla. The aim of this present study was to regenerate papillary recession defects using an amnion-chorion membrane (ACM) allograft and to evaluate the clinical outcome up to six months postoperatively. MATERIALS AND

methodsTwenty patients with 25 Nordland and Tarnow's Class I/II interdental papillary recession defects were treated with ACM and coronal advancement of the gingivo-papillary unit via a semilunar incision on the labial aspect followed by a sulcular incision in the area of interest. A photographic image analysis was carried out using the GNU Image Manipulation software program from the baseline to three and six months postoperatively. The black triangle height (BTH) and the black triangle width (BTW) were calculated using the pixel size and were then converted into millimeters. The mean and standard deviation values were determined at baseline and then again at three and six months postoperatively. The probability values (

resultsOur evaluation of the BTH and BTW showed a statistically and highly significant difference from the baseline until both three and six months postoperatively (

conclusionAn ACM allograft in conjunction with a coronally advanced flap could be a suitable minimally invasive alternative for papillary regeneration.

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AmnionChorionGingival recessionGuided tissue regenerationImage analysis

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PMID34969017
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