The use of adhesive materials in gingival aesthetics.

Gingival recession and its co-morbidities can present with both pulpal symptoms and aesthetic problems. The replication of optimal gingival contour and aesthetics can be addressed by prosthetic or surgical managements1,2. Surgical management in particular can present with significant morbidities for the patients as well as having a degree of technique sensitivity3. These difficulties are exacerbated in the presence of a ‘high smile line’ and loss of interdental papillae: ‘black triangle syndrome’4. As such, clinicians are developing alternative adhesive solutions to this restorative dilemma for the dentate patient such as, gingival coloured porcelain5 and gingival coloured composite6.