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Volume 43 , Issue 2
March/April 2023
Pages 174–180

Staged Treatment with Root Coverage Procedure Prior to Socket Shield: A Clinical Case Report

Vinh Giap Nguyen, DDS, MSc/Michael Gillis, DDS, MSc/Aslan Mammadov, DDS, MSc, PhD

DOI: 10.11607/prd.6238

After performing a tunneling mucogingival surgery procedure to cover generalized root recession in the anterior maxilla, a socket shield procedure was performed for immediate implant placement on a lateral incisor, leaving a root fragment coronal to the buccal bone margin with a long soft tissue attachment. This case report suggests that it is possible to achieve stable peri-implant results 30 months after the described therapy.

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