Incisions and flaps: guidelines and pratical guide

Abstract

In oral surgery, two basic principles are access and good visualization. In many cases, this is only achieved by moving adjacent soft tissues away from the operated site using surgical flaps. The main flaps described in the literature for oral surgery are: envelope, L-shaped or triangular, trapezoidal and Y-shaped. Techniques for performing incisions and flaps are essential for accessing certain teeth or pathologies that arise routinely in the dental clinic, in addition to being used to circumvent surgical complications, such as root fractures. The objective of this work is, as a practical guide, to expose the principles for an adequate technique and a sequence for the realization of the most used flaps in oral surgery.

Keywords: Oral surgery, surgical flaps, guide