[Plastic periodontal surgery].

In this article some indications and procedures of mucogingival and plastic periodontal surgery are reviewed. Frenectomy, vestibulary extension and free gingival graft, which all are widely used among periodontitsts, are described. In the second part of this review different surgical methods for covering recession-like periodontal defects are discussed. The clinical results of coronally advanced flap, connective tissue graft, and guided tissue regeneration are compared. The preference of the Nijmegen periodontal clinic to use coronally advanced flap--with or without connective tissue graft--is explained.