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FRENOTOMY
Techniques
Conventional technique
Indications
Millers technique
Z plasty
Introduced by Schuchardt
Indications
Hypertrophy of the frenum with a low
insertion, which is associated with an interincisor diastema,
lateral incisors have appeared without
causing the diastema to disappear and also in
cases of a short vestibule
V-Y Plasty
Introduced by Dieffenbach
Indications
Maxillary midline frenum
Lengthening the localized area
Broad frenum in the premolar-molar area
Electrosurgery
Healing
Z plasty
inability to achieve a primary closure at the
centre, consequently leading to a secondary
intention healing at the wide exposed wound.
It achieved both the removal of the fibrous band
and the vertical lengthening of the vestibule.
(Archer WH (1975) Oral surgery- a step by step atlas of operative
techniques. (3rdedn)