Treatment of Gingival Recession Defects with Pouch and Tunnel Technique Using Connective Tissue Graft and Lyophilized Chorion Membrane in Smokers

08 March 2023 : Clinical Research

Aishwaraya Veerabadran Loganathan

^1ACF, Sangeetha Subramanian^1BEF, P.S.G. Prakash^1ACDEG, Devapriya Appukuttan^1AEF, Jasmine Crena^1CEG, Khalid J. Alzahrani

^2ADE, Khalaf Alsharif

^2AEF, Ibrahim Faisal F. Halawani

^2BDG, Fuad M. Alzahrani

^2ADE, Saleh Alshammeri^3ADG, Maha A. Bahammam^45ADG, Thodur Madapusi Balaji^6ACF, Hosam Ali Baeshen^7BEG, Shankargouda Patil^8AEG*

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.938865

Med Sci Monit 2023; 29:e938865

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Table 4 Intergroup analysis of clinical parameters between the study groups at 6 months postoperatively.

Variables	6 months		p-value
Variables	Control groupMean±SD	Test groupMean±SD	p-value
RD (mm)	1.15±0.77	1.65±1.14	0.28
RW (mm)	2.08±1.18	2.85±1.40	0.059^*
RGP (mm)	6.54±1.61	6.08±1.49	0.38
RCAL (mm)	8.00±1.82	6.80±1.35	0.04^*
PPD (mm)	1.23±0.21	1.41±0.53	0.42
WAG (mm)	1.77±0.83	3.15±1.06	0.003^*
WKG (mm)	3.15±1.46	4.23±1.30	0.053^*
RC%	59.77±18.59	56.31±18.60	0.294
^* Significant at ≤0.05. NS – not statistically significant; RD – recession depth; RW – recession width; RGP – relative gingival position; RCAL – relative clinical attachment level; PPD – probing pocket depth; WAG – width of attached gingival; WKG – width of keratinized gingiva.

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