Flaps Flashcards
Simple extractions
🔸No incisions needed
🔸 no sutures needed
Surgical extractions
🔸Surgical access via mucoperiosteal flap
🔸Surgical hand piece to remove bone or section tooth
🔸Suturing needed
Flap design
🔸Wider base ensuring good blood supply
🔸Incisions over intact bone- not bony defects or eminences
🔸Rounded corners
🔸Vertical releases at line angles
🔸Avoid vital structures
Vital structures of avoid during flap design
🔸Mental foramen
🔸Salivary ducts
Types of mucoperiosteal flaps
🔸Envelope- 0 vertical releases
🔸Three cornered- 1 vertical release
🔸Trapezoidal- 2 vertical releases
Types of miscellaneous flaps
🔸Semilunar
🔸Double Y
Semilunar flap
🔸Apical to mucogingival junction
🔸For apicoetomy
Double Y flap
🔸Incision down midline
🔸Two vertical releases at each end
🔸For palate torus removal