Tratamento ortodôntico em paciente com recessões gengivais: relato de caso

Abstract

The number of older patients that are looking for orthodontic treatment has increased significantly. These patients present an increase in the prevalence, extent and severity of gingival recessions. Those ones, shows a multifactorial etiology, which can be distinguished in two large groups: predisposing factors and precipitating factors. The intention of this study is to present, through a clinical case, the efficiency of orthodontic treatment performed in an adult patient who presented generalized gingival recessions, without aggravating them. In this way, it proves that, primary, orthodontic tooth movement will hardly promote gingival recessions. Even so, it may provide a thin and soft vestibular bone thickness that, in the presence of initial factors, can result to the formation or worsening of gingival recessions.