Abstract

HUAMAN MENDOZA, Aldrin André; VALDEZ JURADO, Freddy Ronald; SANCHEZ PACHAS ARANDA, Hugo André  and  DE LA TORRE MORENO, Florencio. Factors associated with the recession of the interdental papilla of the upper central incisors in adults of the Peruvian Air Force Central Hospital. Rev. Estomatol. Herediana [online]. 2018, vol.28, n.2, pp.78-88. ISSN 1019-4355.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.20453/reh.v28i2.3323.

Objectives: To identify the main factors associated with the recession of the interdental papilla of the upper central incisors. Material and Methods: A non-probabilistic sample of 86 patients from the section of the Periodontal and Implant Section of the Department of Dentistry of the Peruvian Air Force Central Hospital was analyzed. The study was observational, correlational, transversal and prospective. Factors such as coronal tooth shape and gingival biotype were clinically evaluated; and radiographically, with the parallel technique, distances of the cement enamel proximal junction to the point of interdental contact (UCEp-PC), papilla tip to the point of interdental contact (PP-PC), bone crest to the point of interdental contact (CO-PC), bone crest to the cement enamel proximal junction (CO-UCEp), interdental width (AI), width of the bone crest (AC) and width of the tip of the papilla (APP). Results: In all study patients, the recession level, CO-PC and APP were significant individual predictors (p <0.05) of papillary height (PA). In patients with papillary recession, CO-PC, APP and PP-PC were significant predictors (p <0.05) of AP. In addition, CO-PC was the only significant predictor (p <0.001) of AP in patients without papillary recession. Conclusions: The PC, CO-PC and APP PP distances are the main factors associated with recession of the interdental papilla of upper central incisors and together predict papillary height.

Keywords : Gingiva; incisors; gingival; recession.

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