Question 47 · LDEK · Surgical and regenerative treatment
What is the goal of periodontal surgery?
- A. better access to the root surface.
- B. clinical reduction of periodontal pockets.
- C. resolution of inflammation and establishing the environment for a new connective tissue attachment formation.
- D. re-establishing the physiological and esthetical gingival line.
- E. all the above.
Hint
List the roles of surgery: access, pocket reduction, conditions for new attachment and restoring the gingival contour.
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