Cone-Beam Computed Tomography as a Diagnostic Method for Determination of Gingival Thickness and Distance between Gingival Margin and Bone Crest

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(a) Transversal slice of tooth 13 evidencing hyperdense and round mark. (b) Measuring gingival thickness (GT, white line, perpendicular to the long axis of the tooth). (c) Transversal slice of tooth 13 evidencing hyperdense and round mark. (d) Measuring the distance between the gingival margin and the vestibular bone crest (GMBC-V, white line, parallel to the long axis of the tooth, traced from the gingival margin to the vestibular bone crest). (e) Transversal slice of the region between teeth 11 and 12 with hyperdense and round mark at the tip of the interproximal papilla. (f) Measuring the distance between the gingival margin and the interproximal bone crest (GMBC-I, white line).

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