Open AccessComparison of the clinical applicability of Miller's classification system to Kumar and Masamatti's classification system of gingival recession
Author(s) -
Ashish Kumar,
Geeti Gupta,
Komal Puri,
Mansi Bansal,
Deept Jain,
Manish Khatri,
Sujata Surendra Masamatti
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of indian society of periodontology (print)/journal of indian society of periodontology (online)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 0975-1580
pISSN - 0972-124X
DOI - 10.4103/0972-124x.167164
Subject(s) - recession , miller , dentistry , coronal plane , interdental consonant , orthodontics , categorization , gingival margin , gingival recession , medicine , computer science , artificial intelligence , radiology , keynesian economics , economics , ecology , biology
The aims of the present study were to (i) Find the percentage of recession cases that could be classified by application of Miller's and/or Kumar and Masamatti's classification of gingival recession, and (ii) compare the percentage of clinical applicability of Miller's criteria and Kumar and Masamatti's criteria to the total recessions present.