COMPLETE TESTED AND VERIFIED ANSWERS BY EXPERT
Excises dead or infected periodontal tissue and reshapes tissues for harmonious
topography.
What is resective surgery?
Arrangement of natural and artificial features in an area.
What is topography?
Conditions warranting caution during surgery, like certain systemic diseases or
smoking.
What are relative contraindications?
Conditions prohibiting surgery, like AIDS.
What are absolute contraindications?
Healing by formation of a long junctional epithelium.
What is one possible outcome of periodontal surgery?
Healing by repair - such as scar tissue.
What type of healing takes place after injury but does NOT fully restore its original
architecture or function?
Healing by reattachment
What healing takes place between connective tissue and roots that had been separated
by surgery or incision?
Healing by new attachment
What healing takes place between pathological exposed roots and connective
tissue/epithelium?
Healing by regeneration
What biological process fully restores lost tissue's architecture and function?
Wound margins closely adapt to each other during healing.
What is healing by primary intention?
Full-Thickness Flap
, What periodontal flap provides complete access to underlying bone during surgery?
Wound margins not closely adapted during healing.
What is healing by secondary intention?
Partial-Thickness Flap
What periodontal flap elevates only epithelium and thin connective tissue layer?
Nondisplaced Flap
What flap sutures with margin at the original position post-surgery?
Displaced Flap
What flap sutures with margin at a new position post-surgery, such as apical, coronal, or
lateral?
Horizontal Incisions
What incisions are directed along gingival margin in mesiodistal direction?
Vertical Incisions
What incisions are perpendicular or oblique to gingival margin in apico-occlusal
direction?
Modified Widman Flap Surgery
What is another name for the flap access procedure?
Open Flap Debridement
What is similar to flap for access surgery but may displace the flap margin?
Guided Tissue Regeneration (GTR)
What procedure guides progenitor cells to stimulate regeneration of lost periodontal
structures?
PDL Cells
What cells have potential to induce periodontal regeneration?
Periodontal Microsurgery
What surgery is performed with a surgical microscope for increased precision?
Laser Therapy
What therapy uses wavelengths to treat disease sites and incise/coagulate soft tissues?
EDTA and tetracycline
What agents are root conditioning agents?
Ostectomy