Juniper Online Journal of Orthopedic & Orthoplastic Surgery Case History Patient aged 34 years reported to the department of Periodontology with the complaint of long corner tooth with sensitivity. On clinical examination, gingival recession was observed on maxillary right canine ( Figure 1 ). Diagnosis was made as Miller's Class I gingival recession with 13. Coronally advanced flap with alloderm with microsurgical approach was planned. Patient's consent as well as ethical clearance was obtained prior to the surgical intervention. Following administration of local anesthesia, the tooth with the recession was root planed. A split-thickness flap with two vertical releasing incisions with micro scalpels was raised with microelevaters, and the papillae were de-epithelialized ( Figure 2 ). Alloderm was measured, cut and rehydrated before suturing it with chromic gut 5-0 covering the defect as shown in Figure 3 . The flap was coronally moved and secured...
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