Crown Lengthening Techniques and Modifications to Treat Excessive Gingival Display

Maziar Shahzad Dowlatshahi; Ghazal Anoosh; Jorge Alania; Jessica M Latimer

doi:10.1016/j.cden.2022.03.002

Crown Lengthening Techniques and Modifications to Treat Excessive Gingival Display

Dent Clin North Am. 2022 Jul;66(3):361-372. doi: 10.1016/j.cden.2022.03.002. Epub 2022 May 31.

Authors

Maziar Shahzad Dowlatshahi¹, Ghazal Anoosh², Jorge Alania³, Jessica M Latimer⁴

Affiliations

¹ Private Practice, 8500 Leslie Street, Suite 220, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: dowlatshahimsh@gmail.com.
² Department of Periodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
³ Private Practice, Victor Maurtua Avenue 140, Office 407, San Isidro, Lima, Peru.
⁴ Department of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, 188 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

PMID: 35738732
DOI: 10.1016/j.cden.2022.03.002

Abstract

Dental aesthetics are a fundamental treatment goal in dentistry, in which even minute deviations from the ideal may necessitate corrective treatment or constitute a suboptimal clinical outcome. A well-defined protocol that adheres to sound biological and surgical principles is necessary to harmoniously integrate the dental and periodontal components. This article reviews clinical and aesthetic guidelines based on these principles for clinical crown lengthening.

Keywords: Crown lengthening; Dental; Esthetics; Gingivoplasty; Periodontium.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Crown Lengthening* / methods
Esthetics, Dental
Gingiva / surgery
Gingivoplasty
Humans
Tooth*