Prof. Dr. Sofia Aroca is a distinguished periodontologist with a PhD and extensive academic and professional experience. Upon completion of her dental degree, she proceeded to achieve advanced qualifications in dental biomaterials, periodontology, and oral implantology from the University Paris VII, France. Dr. Aroca has served as an Assistant Professor and Lecturer at University Paris VII and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Szeged and Bern University.
She co-owns a center for clinical research and continuing education in Paris and is a renowned international lecturer in periodontal plastic surgery. Dr. Aroca's research focuses on improving the predictability of periodontal plastic surgery techniques. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and co-authored several books on periodontal regeneration and peri-implant infections.
Several surgical techniques for the treatment of multiples recession type defects have been evaluated in different type of studies ( RCT,Meta-analyses, systematic reviews) among them the Multiple coronally advanced flap (MCAF) and Multiple coronally advanced Tunnel (MCAT). These two techniques showed their capacity to reach the previous objective requirement (i.e. CRC) as long as they are adapted to thoroughly evaluated clinical situation. Therefore, the treatment of multiple recession with a single surgical technique is a more complex task, since the diversity of anatomical condition in any single tooth, the wider avascular areas, and the position of the teeth.
Various elements must be taken into account at the initial evaluation. So far, there is not a clear distinction in which of them are major or minor determinants and how they influence the surgical choice and the decision-making process is still a hard task for the surgeon.
The aim of this presentation is to share a decisional making process based on literature and clinical experience to identify the most precise clinical muco-gingival condition when the tunnel technique is the surgical procedure for the treatment of multiple recession type defects.