Digital Planning and Guided Dual Technique in Aesthetic Crown Lengthening

Universidade Federal de Alfenas

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tooth Eruption Disorder

Treatments: Procedure: Guided dual aesthetic crown lengthening surgery; Procedure: Conventional aesthetic crown lengthening surgery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04922086

ACL - UNIFAL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Excessive gingival exposure, commonly named gingival smile, results in a dentogingival disharmony. One of the gingival smile treatment is the aesthetics-related crown lengthening surgery (ACL) to provide a adequate clinical crown length and diminish gingival display. In this context, digital planning and guided dual technique have been proposed to increase the effectiveness and predictability of the ACL. In this technique, an facial and dental analysis of the patient is performed and transferred to a digital model obtained by intraoral digital scan. The digital model is used to create a double guide that will determine the final position of the gingival and alveolar margin in the ACL. Despite the technique showing promising results, clinical studies evaluating the effectiveness of this technique are scarce. The present study aims to evaluate the digital planning and guided dual technique in the ACL in comparison to conventional technique in relation to the predictability/stability of the gingival margin positioning and patient satisfaction after the ACL. Twenty-four patients diagnosed with altered passive eruption type I subcategory B will be selected and divided into two groups. In the control group (n = 12) patients will be submitted to the conventional ACL planned using clinical examination; in the test group (n = 12) patients will be submitted to ACL using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT), digital planning and guided dual technique. Periodontal clinical parameters including probing depth (PS), clinical attachment level (CAL), clinical crown length (CCL), anatomical crown length (ACL) and cemento-enamel junction to alveolar bone crest distance will be evaluated clinically at baseline, in the immediate postoperative, 4, 8 and 12 months after the procedure. Participants will be submitted to questionnaires to assess satisfaction with the smile, gum and tooth characteristics and experience with the procedure. The investigators aim to demonstrate with the study the effectiveness of the both techniques and evaluate the clinical cost benefit for the patient and the dentist of the guided dual technique in relation to the conventional ACL technique.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Non smokers;
• Periodontal and systemically healthy;
• Patients with more than 20 teeth including the six maxillary anterior teeth;
• Altered passive eruption diagnosis (classified as type I subcategory B) in the quadratic anterior teeth.

Exclusion criteria

• Orthodontic treatment;
• Presence of prosthetic crowns;
• Extensive restorations;
• Extensive incisal edge attrition;
• Misalignment on maxillary anterior teeth.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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24 participants in 2 patient groups

Test group

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will be submitted to ACL planned using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT), digital planning and guided dual technique.

Treatment:

Procedure: Guided dual aesthetic crown lengthening surgery

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients will be submitted to the conventional ACL planned using clinical examination.

Treatment:

Procedure: Conventional aesthetic crown lengthening surgery