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Volume 17 , Issue 1
January/February 1997
Pages 41-51

Clinical Results With Exposed Polyglactin 910 Resorbable Membranes for Guided Tissue Regeneration

Urbani/Graziani/Lombardo/Caton

PMID: 10332252
DOI: 10.11607/prd.00.0204

Three cases are presented where early exposure of a resorbable membrane occurred during guided tissue regeneration therapy. An antimicrobial regimen was selected to determine whether infection of exposed membranes could be controlled to the point of achieving acceptable clinical results without membrane removal. The results suggest that with the use of the antimicrobial regimen: (1) exposure is compatible with successful clinical results, and (2) removal is not necessary.

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