Post Surgical Management Flashcards

1
Q

What is the general advice to give for post-surgical perio?

A

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

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2
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What is important to consent patient to if having graft?

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Failure of graft

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3
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How long can donor sites be painful for?

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4-6 weeks

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4
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What OHI should give to pt who has just had perio surgery?

A
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
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5
Q

Common follow up regimen for surgical perio pt?

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1 week - sutures removal donor site and check progress

4 weeks -suture remove recipient site

3 month - assess healing

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6
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What is involved at 1 week check up?

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Removing suture donor site

Rubber cup polish is large plaque deposit

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7
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Warnings to give with CHX?

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Staining, mucosal irritation, altered taste

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8
Q

When can areas be probed after surgery?

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NO EARLIER than 3 months

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9
Q

If carrying out regenerative procedure and want to assess with radiograph, when?

A

9 month post surgery assess improvement bone level

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10
Q

4 stages of wound healing?

A

Haemostasis
Inflammation
Granulation
Maturation

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11
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What happens in haemostasis part of healing?

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Capillary damage = blood clot

Blood clot = protect exposed tissue and matrix for cell migration

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12
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What happens in inflammation part of healing?

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Growth factor in clot recruit inflammatory cells

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13
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What happens in granulation part of healing?

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Migration and proliferation of fibroblast and endothelial cells
Initial collagen formed
Matrix connection = tension in wound = contraction

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14
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What happens in maturation part of healing?

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Fibroblast replace provisional fibrin matrix = collagen matrix
Smooth muscle actin = wound contraction
Endothelial cells migrate = agigonesis

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15
Q

How does periodontal wound differ from epidermal wound?

A

Same sequence normal healing
Only one wide will be vascular
Have natural break epithelium = contamination

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16
Q

How long does it take for pocket reduction following non-surgical tx?

A

3 months

1 week = long junctional epithelium
Resolution inflammation 2 weeks
Remodelling connective tissue and maturation 2 -3 months

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17
Q

Two types of healing?

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Regeneration

Repair

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18
Q

What is regeneration?

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Reproduction or reconstruction of lost tissue in way architecture and function is restored

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19
Q

Example of regenerative procedure?

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GTR

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20
Q

What is repair?

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Wound tissue doesn’t fully restore function/architecture of the tissue

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21
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Why may no repair occur?

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Insufficient control of infection
Inadequate debridement
No long term amaintance

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22
Q

What are other types of histological healing see post-perio tx?

A
No repair
Long junctional epithelium attach root surface
CT attach root surface
New bone separated root surface
New bone ankylosis root surface
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23
Q

Local factors which affecting healing?

A
Infection
Poor blood supply
Foreign body
Movement 
Ionising radiation
Type/size and location injury
24
Q

Why can movement affect healing?

A

Cause lack of stability graft - compromised fibrin clot

25
Q

What are systemic factors which affect healing?

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Age
Poor nutrition 
Hormones - e.g corticosteroids
Smoking
Uncontrolled diabetes 
Haematological abnormalities
26
Q

What is healing by primary intention?

A

When edges of wound are approximated at surgical site

Not much loss tissue/cells

27
Q

What is healing by secondary intention?

A

Wound not approximated, may have extensive loss of tissue = open w/ large tissue defect

28
Q

How does wound heal by secondary intention?

A

Granulation tissue from bottom up w/ epithelial cover

29
Q

Adv prei surgeyr?

A

Improved access and visualisation

Improved aesthetic - alter position gingival margin

30
Q

How long does healing following curettage take?

A

Restoration and epithelialisation begins 2-3 days and completed 7-10 days

Pocket epithelium removed allowed cells populate root surface

31
Q

What does curettage involve?

A

Scraping inner epithelial lining, epithelial attachment and underlying CT - remove inflammed soft tissue

32
Q

How does wound of gingvectomy heal?

A

Secondary intention

33
Q

How long does it take for gingivectomy wound to seal?

A

Complete = 6 weeks

34
Q

What a 4 stages of pedicle flap healing?

A

Adaptation
Proliferation
Attachement
Maturation

35
Q

How long to reach maturation stage of pedicle flap healing?

A

2-3 months

36
Q

What does survival of free tissue graft depend on?

A

Diffusion of products and oxygen through tissue plasma - graft doesn’t have own blood supply

37
Q

Phases of healing of free tissue graft?

A

Initial phase
Revascularisation
Tissue maturation

38
Q

How does a free graft vascularise?

A

Anastomses established between blood vessel of recipient bed and those in grafted tissue
Capillary proliferation
Fibrous union between graft and tissue bed

39
Q

How does successful healing of free graft rely on?

A

Close adaptation - metabolic products shorter distance diffuse, shorter distance cellular migration, lack mobility in graft

40
Q

3 main types bone regeneration materials?

A

Osseoconductive
Osseoinductive
Osseoproliferative

41
Q

Examples regenerative procedures?

A

GTR

Enamel matrix derivatives

42
Q

What is osseoproliferative regeneration?

A

New bone formed by bone forming cells contained in graft

43
Q

What is osseoconductive regeneration?

A

Graft acts as passive scaffold for adjacent host bone cells

44
Q

What is osseoinductive regeneration?

A

Bone formation induced in surrounding soft tissue via bone inducing substance

45
Q

Aim GTR?

A

Selectively guide tissue regeneration in periodontium

46
Q

What does GTR involve?

A

Placing physical barrier to prevent apical migration of epithelium and CT along root surface

47
Q

How can healing truly be assessed?

A

Histologically - impractical

48
Q

How measure perio healing clinically?

A

Probing - pocket depth
Radiograph - bony infill
Bleeding index

49
Q

Signs clinical success following debridement?

A
Decreased inflammation
Reduced BOP
Decreased PD
Increase attachment 
Elimination poss
No increase mobility
Improved tissue contour 
Stabilisation bone levels
50
Q

What are clinical signs of success following root coverage procedure?

A

Marginal tissue reach CEJ
Clinical attachement
Sulcus depth 2mm of less
Absent BOP

51
Q

Complication may occur during periodontal tx?

A

Pain, bleeding, exposed apex, damage flap

Inadequate anaesthesia

52
Q

Complications may occur after perio tx?

A
Pain
Bleeding
Sensitivity
Infection
Swelling 
Dysasthessia
Failure graft
53
Q

Long-term complication perio tx?

A

Recession
Sensitivitt
Poor aesthetic
Altered sensation

54
Q

What are pt factors that can produce variable outcome?

A

OHI
Smoking
General health/MH

55
Q

What are defect characteristics which can produce variable outcomes?

A

Defect width
Amount attachment loss
Amount bone loss
Occlusal loads