Periodontal Plastic Surgery| The White Arch Dental Centre

Dr Rashmi Hegde | Periodontics and Oral Implantology

Treatment proceduresfor corrections of defects in morphology, position & or amount of soft tissues and underlying bone support of teeth and implants.

1. Smile Designing
Correction of uneven gum margins, excessive gingival display, or uneven teeth alignment. Correction of gums as well as teeth followed by a crown or veneer placement

2. Crown Lengthening Procedures : 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 crowns.

2. Techniques to Increase the width of attached Gingiva
For covering the exposed tooth surface due to gum recession, Patient generally complains of sensitive teeth, difficulty in brushing and unpleasant appearance. FGG, CTG, pedicle grafts, etc can be used to augment the width of attached gingiva; for optimal mainteneance of oral and gingival health.

3. Frenectomy
For removal of high upper labial (frenum) fold between the upper lip and gums, which can cause recession of gums and pocket formation, improper closure of midline diastema following orthodontic treatment, and can interfere with the proper seating of dental prosthesis such as dentures etc.

4. Frenotomy
Relocating the lower frenum.

5.Vestibuloplasty
The increase of depth of the shallow vestibule to enable proper oral hygiene maintenance and before placement of dentures for proper retention.

6. Recession/ Root Coverage procedures
To cover the exposed root surfaces folowing gingival recession for esthetics, prevention of root caries, treatment of dentinal hypersensitivity etc. It can be single or multiple recession defects. Techniques inc;ude Free Gingival graft, Connective tissue graft, Platelet Rich Fibrin, Pedicle grafts, Coronall advanced flaps,Tissue engineered substitutes, Tunneling technique, etc.

7. Soft tissue augmentation around dental implants

8. Papilla Reconstruction

Dr. Vivek Hegde

Dr Vivek Hegde completed his BDS and MDS in Conservative dentistry and Endodontics from Manipal University. He has also completed his Diploma and Masters in Laser dentistry from University of Vienna Austria, is one of the founder members and is currently the President of SOLA (Society of Laser Applications)India. He is also a faculty in the Master’s program in Dental Lasers , University of Vienna Austria. He is a renowned clinician in India and specialises in Microscope enhanced Endodontics . He is a pioneer in the use of Microscopes in dentisty in India and lectures extensively as a speaker at national and international conferences. He is also the course director for his teaching academy and conducts hands on clinical workshops in Endodontics -treatment/ retreatment, Laser dentistry and M icroscopic dentistry. He is currently Professor, Head of Departmet and Vice Principal at M. A Rangoonwala Dental Collge Pune.

Dr. Rashmi Hegde

Dr. Rashmi Hedge has completed her BDS from Pune University. She pursued her MDS in Periodontics & Oral Implantology, with Vice Chancellor’s certificate of merit for standing 2nd in overall merit, from Maharashtra University of Health Sciences Nashik. Dr. Rashmi Hegde has also completed Diploma & Masters in Laser Dentistry from the University of Vienna, Austria. She has undergone hands-on clinical training in Implantology and Microscope enhanced Dentistry and a has keen interest in Periodontal plastic surgery, Piezosurgery and Laser-Assisted dentistry. She also has national and international presentations and publications to her credit. Dr. Rashmi Hegde is also a faculty at M.A Rangoonwala college of dental sciences Pune and is a panel consultant to some of the hospitals.

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