Treatment For Gummy Smile. Case Report

Ashley Yaressi Gómez-Rueda; Omar Elizondo-Cantú; Jesús Israel Rodríguez-Pulido; Karen Lizette Villarreal-Arizpe & Norma Idalia Rodríguez-Franco

Summary

Esthetic recontouring is a periodontal plastic surgery that aims to restore a more harmonious smile according to the patient's facial appearance, since the main reason to perform this procedure is when there is a diagnosis of an altered passive eruption or gingival smile. The gingival smile is one of the main concerns according to aesthetics when there is a gingival exposure of more than 3 mm in which it is justifiable to perform the aesthetic recontouring. 28-year-old female patient with a diagnosis of altered passive eruption 1B with a 4-month follow-up. Treatment consisted of esthetic recontouring to correct the gingival smile. Esthetic recontouring is a surgical procedure performed with the aim of improving the patient's esthetics when there is excessive gingival exposure and to facilitate harmony according to facial appearance.

KEY WORDS: Gingival smile, Esthetic, Crown lengthening, Case report.

How to cite this article

GÓMEZ-RUEDA, A. Y.; ELIZONDO-CANTÚ, O.; RODRÍGUEZ-PULIDO, J. I.; VILLARREAL-ARIZPE, K. L. & RODRÍGUEZ-FRANCO, N. I. Treatment for gummy smile. Case report. Int. J. Odontostomat., 18(2):260-263, 2024.