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CASE REPORT
A newer technique of suture placement in scalpel and laser-assisted vestibular deepening
  1. Naila Nehal1,
  2. Deepti Chandra2,
  3. Rais Ahmed3,
  4. Charanjit Singh Saimbi4
  1. 1Department of Periodontology, CPGIDS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
  2. 2Department of Periodontology, Career Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences & Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
  3. 3Department of Plastic Surgery, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
  4. 4Department of Periodontology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Rais Ahmed, drraischd{at}gmail.com

Summary

Surgical vestibular deepening procedures are well established and are being routinely performed.

In spite of being an old technique, postoperative results in most of the instances are disappointing. Usually eventual loss of the clinically gained vestibular depth obtained through the surgical procedures occurs. This happens mainly due to rapid epithelialisation of the surgical wound and healing by scarring. Therefore, in the present case, after the initial incision, the labial free end of flap was sutured by a new technique so as to prevent rapid epithelialisation. Finally, the incision was completed and vestibular deepening was achieved with the help of diode laser as they are reported to produce remarkably less scarring at the surgical site.

  • dentistry and oral medicine
  • mouth

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221719

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors DC has done the records and NN has done planning of the case. RA was part of planning. Patient was treated together by NN ans DC and some literature search was done by NN. NN did the initial manuscript writing. RA did further literature search, prepared the photographs according to the journal and prepared the manuscript and referencing. CSS did the final corrections.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.