Alterações da mucosa no processo de remodelação óssea alveolar após extração dentária

Abstract

Dental extraction is a procedure which necessarily damages the surrounding tissues of the tooth, including the peri-alveolar mucosa. At the end of dental extraction, the Dentist must assure the decontamination and debridement of the wound and promote it’s healing by hemostasis, with or without suture ligation. Alveolar bone and wound repair involves certain healing stages that differ between them. The aim of this study was the evaluation of the clinical changes of the perialveolar mucosa during the process of post-extractional bone healing in the verbal consultation of Oral Surgery of the University Clinic of the Portuguese Catholic University – Viseu. The study included patients with indication for dental extraction, due to caries or fracture, on the anterior sector (1.5 to 2.5), between November 2014 and April 2015. Distinct assessment moments were considered: moment of extraction (baseline), 1 month after tooth extraction (T1) and 3 months after tooth extraction (T2). The evaluated clinical parameters were changes in attached gingiva height, gum level, vestibule-palatine bone width and bone crest level. All collected information, as well as statistical findings of this project, will be relevant to Dentists in relation to changes in the mucosa which may be expected in matters of esthetic reabilitations of the anterior sector. The results were registered and subjected to statistical treatment using Office Excel 2013 (Microsoft ® Seattle, WA, EUA).

Date of Award	7 Sept 2015
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Bruno Almeida (Supervisor)