Post Surgical Management Flashcards
What is the general advice to give for post-surgical perio?
Give written and verbal
Expect pain (especially donor sites) - painkillers
Advise swelling/bruising - ice pack can be useful
Bleeding
Soft diet 1 week
Don’t look/play with site
What is important to consent patient to if having graft?
Failure of graft
How long can donor sites be painful for?
4-6 weeks
What OHI should give to pt who has just had perio surgery?
Clean adjacent teeth gently Clear set of teeth as usual Avoid brushing surgical area 2 weeks - clean teeth in surgical area w/ CHX No interdental cleaning graft site CHX rinse 2x day 2 weeks
Common follow up regimen for surgical perio pt?
1 week - sutures removal donor site and check progress
4 weeks -suture remove recipient site
3 month - assess healing
What is involved at 1 week check up?
Removing suture donor site
Rubber cup polish is large plaque deposit
Warnings to give with CHX?
Staining, mucosal irritation, altered taste
When can areas be probed after surgery?
NO EARLIER than 3 months
If carrying out regenerative procedure and want to assess with radiograph, when?
9 month post surgery assess improvement bone level
4 stages of wound healing?
Haemostasis
Inflammation
Granulation
Maturation
What happens in haemostasis part of healing?
Capillary damage = blood clot
Blood clot = protect exposed tissue and matrix for cell migration
What happens in inflammation part of healing?
Growth factor in clot recruit inflammatory cells
What happens in granulation part of healing?
Migration and proliferation of fibroblast and endothelial cells
Initial collagen formed
Matrix connection = tension in wound = contraction
What happens in maturation part of healing?
Fibroblast replace provisional fibrin matrix = collagen matrix
Smooth muscle actin = wound contraction
Endothelial cells migrate = agigonesis
How does periodontal wound differ from epidermal wound?
Same sequence normal healing
Only one wide will be vascular
Have natural break epithelium = contamination
How long does it take for pocket reduction following non-surgical tx?
3 months
1 week = long junctional epithelium
Resolution inflammation 2 weeks
Remodelling connective tissue and maturation 2 -3 months
Two types of healing?
Regeneration
Repair
What is regeneration?
Reproduction or reconstruction of lost tissue in way architecture and function is restored
Example of regenerative procedure?
GTR
What is repair?
Wound tissue doesn’t fully restore function/architecture of the tissue
Why may no repair occur?
Insufficient control of infection
Inadequate debridement
No long term amaintance
What are other types of histological healing see post-perio tx?
No repair Long junctional epithelium attach root surface CT attach root surface New bone separated root surface New bone ankylosis root surface