Avaliação da efetividade clínica da tenda e do arco de polidioxanona - sem o uso de membrana de regeneração tecidual guiada - na técnica do recobrimento de recessões gengivais após tratamento ortodôntico

Abstract

This study evaluates the clinical effectiveness of a polydioxanone tend and arch - with no use of Guided Tissue Regeneration membrane - in a root coverage method for Miller Class I and II gingival recessions after orthodontics treatment. Forty-nine gingival recessions (in 16 patients) were observed before and after the surgical procedure (0, 7, 30, 60, and 120 days). The gingival recession level (NRG), the sulcus probing depth (PSG) and the Keratinized Mucosa Width (AMC) were registered. During the surgery, polydioxanone tend and arch were inserted in little holes in osseous crest (there was not Guided Tissue Regeneration membrane addition) and the flap was coronally positioned in order to cover the gingival recessions. Statistical analysis was performed with the non-parametric Wilcoxon test. The results could showed that in 48 cases, the final gingival recession was smaller than the initial level (NRG: 2,55 mm+-1,11/dia 0; 0,34 mm+-0,65/dia 120 – p=0.0001); the sulcus probing depth showed the same values at the beginning and at the end of experiment in 47 cases (PSG: 0,99 mm+-0,71/dias 0 e 120 – p=1) and the keratinized mucosa width was greater at day 120 than at day 0 in 46 cases (AMC: 2,38 mm+-0,76/dia 0; 3,18 mm+- 0,90/dia 120 – p=0.0001). The conclusion was that the addition of a polydioxanone tend and arch to the coronally positioned flap - with no use of a Guided Tissue Regeneration membrane – allow the root coverage of Miller Class I and II gingival recessions, with no formation of deeper gingival sulcus, still allows increasing in a keratinized mucosa width.