IN RECENT YEARS mucogingival surgery has established itself as a very satisfactory approach in the treatment of advanced periodontal disease. Correlated with the clinical techniques in mucogingival surgery, various histologic studies were undertaken to better understand the response of the tissues subjected to these clinical techniques. The findings of these investigations soon demonstrated the destructive effects of some techniques, in contrast to other techniques which were far less destructive to the tissues and gave more satisfactory results.In December 1959 at Glenwood Springs, Colorado,! Staffileno reported the histologic findings of an experimental study of a surgical technique that was seldom employed in mucogingival surgery at that time. This surgical technique was a split thickness mucogingival flap which left the periosteal connective tissue intact on the bone. Simultaneously at this same meeting Ochsenbein presented a double flap procedure which involved separating the alveolar mucosa from the periosteum and then stripping the periosteum from the bone. Thereafter this same periosteum would be sutured over
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