Gingival recession in orthodontic patients 10 to 15 years posttreatment: A retrospective cohort study.

Gebistorf, Meret; Mijuskovic, Marco; Pandis, Nikolaos; Fudalej, Piotr; Katsaros, Christos (2018). Gingival recession in orthodontic patients 10 to 15 years posttreatment: A retrospective cohort study. American journal of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics, 153(5), pp. 645-655. Elsevier 10.1016/j.ajodo.2017.08.020

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INTRODUCTION

The aims of this study were to retrospectively investigate the long-term development of gingival recession in a cohort of orthodontic patients and to compare the prevalence of gingival recession in orthodontically treated patients 10 to 15 years posttreatment to that of untreated subjects with malocclusion.

METHODS

The sample included 88 patients with mean ages of 12.1 years (SD, 2.4 years) at pretreatment, 15.1 years (SD, 2.4 years) at posttreatment, and 27.9 years (SD, 2.5 years) 10 to 15 years posttreatment. The control group comprised 102 untreated patients seeking orthodontic treatment with a mean age of 28.7 years (SD, 3.1 years). Gingival recession was evaluated on study models.

RESULTS

The prevalence of both labial/buccal and lingual/palatal gingival recession increased during orthodontic treatment with further increases during the long-term posttreatment period; 98.9% of the orthodontically treated participants had at least 1 labial/buccal recession, and 85.2% of the patients had at least 1 lingual/palatal recession 10 to 15 years posttreatment. In addition, the proportion of patients with multiple labial/buccal or lingual/palatal recession sites increased considerably in the same time period. The prevalences of labial/buccal gingival recession were similar in the orthodontically treated patients 10 to 15 years posttreatment and the untreated controls. Study group patients with a crossbite before treatment showed 2.73 more recessions (95% CI, 0.28-5.17; P = 0.029) than did those without a transverse discrepancy. Untreated subjects with crowding greater than 3 mm per arch had 3.29 more recessions (95% CI, 0.73-5.68; P = 0.012) to 4.92 more recession sites (95% CI, 1.70-8.15; P = 0.003) than did those with mild or no crowding.

CONCLUSIONS

Within the limitations of this study, it seems that, in regard to the prevalence of gingival recession, orthodontically treated patients are not compromised in the long term compared with those with malocclusion that was untreated for many years.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > School of Dental Medicine > Department of Orthodontics

UniBE Contributor:

Gebistorf, Meret, Mijuskovic, Marco, Pandis, Nikolaos, Fudalej, Piotr, Katsaros, Christos

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

0889-5406

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Renate Imhof-Etter

Date Deposited:

22 Feb 2019 10:34

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:24

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.ajodo.2017.08.020

PubMed ID:

29706212

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.123601

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/123601

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