Background: Being an autologous graft, a subepithelial connective tissue (SECT) graft shows more predictable root coverage better than other techniques. Hence, it is most likely to be widely used for recession treatment. During planing, smear layer forms on the surface that cannot removed by water or saline rinsing. To remove this layer, biomodification agents are used. The present study was co...

AIM To treat mucogingival problems palatal masticatory mucosa is used as a donor material. This study aimed to determine the thickness of donor palatal mucosa and associations of age and gender in Indian subjects aged 14 to 60 years by direct clinical technique. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty systemically and periodontally healthy Indian subjects (20 males; 20 females; age range of 14 to 60 year...

Evidence is presented that the proliferating gall bladder epithelium in the dog and guinea pig is capable of stimulating bone formation in certain connective tissues such as the abdominal wall. Other connective tissue areas such as the subepithelial connective tissue of the gall bladder and urinary bladder do not share in this tissue reaction and resist the bone stimulus of the epithelium. The ...

PURPOSE To investigate the possible role of stem cell factor (SCF) in the pathogenesis of pterygium. METHODS The localization of SCF was examined immunohistochemically in excised tissue from 4 primary pterygia and 5 normal conjunctival specimens. RESULTS Three of the four pterygia showed strong immunoreactivity of SCF in the subepithelial connective tissue at the cap area. This immunoreacti...

PURPOSE In the anterior maxilla, hard and soft tissue augmentations are sometimes required to meet esthetic and functional demands. In such cases, primary soft tissue closure after bone grafting procedures is indispensable for a successful outcome. This report describes a simple method for soft tissue coverage of a guided bone regeneration (GBR) site using the double-rotated palatal subepitheli...

PURPOSE To localize at the electron microscopic level the cell adhesion-related HNK-1 carbohydrate epitope in the inner connective tissue layer (ICTL) of the human ciliary body. METHODS Seven specimens representing the pars plicata (age range, 12 to 86 years) and three specimens representing the pars plana (age range, 29 to 71 years) of the ciliary body were sampled at death from eight normal...

OBJECTIVES The aim was to test whether or not soft tissue augmentation with a newly developed collagen matrix (CM) leads to volume gain in chronic ridge defects similar to those obtained by an autogenous subepithelial connective tissue graft (SCTG). MATERIAL AND METHODS In six dogs, soft tissue volume augmentation was performed by randomly allocating three treatment modalities to chronic ridg...