Grau de satisfação de pacientes submetidos à gengivoplastia estética

Abstract

The demand by an esthetic smile increases the search of the relationship between the pink and white harmonic esthetic. Patients often show dissatisfaction as their smile, which depending on the relationship between cementoenamel junction with the gingival margin it can be corrected by the gingivoplasty surgery. The gummy smile happens when, in a moderate smile, the patient exposes more than 3 mm of gum. That type of smile could be consequence of three factors: altered passive eruption, gingival hyperplasia and excess of anterior maxilla. The gingivoplasty could enter as a treatment of one of that causes, being a variation of gingivectomy surgery realized in health tissues without the presence of periodontal pocket and for esthetic regions, as anterior maxilla. That surgery has as a mainly objective, develop a physiologic gingival contour in absence of Periodontal Pocket and establish a better harmony of the gingival margin in esthetic regions. The aim of that work was to observe the degree of satisfaction of patients undergoing this procedure, by applying a questionnaire. It was possible to verify a high level of satisfaction of the patients, a larger number of female individuals and a predominantly age group of young adults, besides was noticed few moan related to the postoperative.