INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH PERIO-PROSTHO RELATIONSHIP

TOPIC: PERIO-PROSTHO RELATIONSHIP

📌 POINTS TO PONDER

🔹Crown-lengthening surgery is the surgical procedure which exposes adequate clinical crown to prevent the  placement of the crown margin into the area of the biologic width. 

🔹Biologic width is defined as the dimension of healthy gingival tissue, which is attached to the tooth coronal to the crest of the alveolar bone.

📌 VIVA VOCE

Q1. What is the dimension of biologic width?

Ans. Connective tissue attachment of 1.07 mm and 0.97 mm of junctional epithelium makes total biologic width of 2.04 mm.