Author: Paulo Camargo, Philip Melnick & Barrie Kenney.
Published on: Periodontology 2000, Vol 27, 2001; 72-96.
A wide variety of periodontal plastic surgical procedures have been described to correct mucogingival problems and to cover denuded root surfaces. The purpose of this article is to discuss the rationale for mucogingival therapy and to examine the aesthetic clinical applications of one of the earliest forms of mucogingival therapy reported: the free gingival graft