CONDITION
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PREFERRED FLAP
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For
accessibility in anterior teeth segments
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For
reconstructive osseous surgery
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Papillary preservation flap
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For
accessibility in non – esthetic zone
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Modified widman flap
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For osseous
defect closure by bone recontouring
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Decreased width
of attached gingiva with thick pocket wall
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Apically displaced flap
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Long narrow
gingival defect on single tooth
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Laterally displaced flap
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Absence of
attached gingival with friable pocket wall or no pocket
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Free gingival graft
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Isolated
recession on upper teeth
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Tarnow’s semilunar coronally displaced
flap
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