At 39, I've never had a cavity, and my doctor used to say my mouth was boring. But I was born with thin gum tissue, and my gums started to recede gradually. I had gum-graft surgery to avoid an exposed ...

During the procedure, healthy tissue is removed from an area of your mouth and is then used to cover an exposed tooth root. There are three different types of gum graft: It’s possible that you may ...

The second step of the treatment was to perform an atraumatic extraction. Atraumatic means less damage to the bone surrounding the root and less pressure on the root of the tooth, allowing removal of ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD Key Takeaways The OATS procedure is a type of surgery that helps fix small areas ...

I hate to brag, but my teeth have always been excellent. A dentist once even told me I could be a mouth model (which is a thing that exists, apparently). So I took it extremely personally when another ...

A skin graft is a surgical procedure that involves removing healthy skin from one area of the body to another. The healthy skin replaces damaged or missing skin resulting from trauma, burns, and ...

Skin grafting involves surgically removing skin from one area of the body and transplanting it to another. A skin graft may be needed for many medical reasons, including loss of skin due to injury, ...

A gum graft is a type of dental surgery performed to correct the effects of gum recession. It is a quick and relatively simple surgery in which a periodontist removes healthy gum tissue from the roof ...

Chinese surgeon successfully grafted human ear onto patient's foot using heterotopic grafting, advancing reconstructive surgery possibilities.

A skin graft is a patch of skin removed from one area of your body (donor site) and reattached in another place (recipient site). Skin grafts can only come from your own body. You can’t receive a skin ...