Abstract
Soft tissue volume and quality are considered important factors for functional and esthetic long-term outcomes around natural teeth and dental implants. However, achieving them is challenging for oral surgeons. Healing of an extraction site is combined with normal physiological ridge resorption and loss of interdental papillae scaffold. Therefore, the rehabilitation of these ridges with dental implants or pontic site of fixed dental prosthesis usually necessitates soft tissue management to achieve natural-looking tooth replacement. The aim of this chapter is to introduce two surgical topics that are used to preserve the soft tissue quality, volume, and architecture during teeth extraction procedure. The first topic is the “transient coronectomy” that is used to save the interdental papilla during teeth extraction, and the second topic is “The back-cut technique” that is used to enhance the socket seal of post-extraction sites.
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