Antonio Linares
DDS MClinDent (Perio) PhD
- Assistant Professor in Periodontology University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
- European PhD with honors (University of Santiago de Compostela) 2010.
- Master of Clinical Dentistry in Periodontology (Eastman Dental Institute) 2002-2005.
- Degree in Dental Surgery (University of Santiago de Compostela) 1995-2000.
- Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer Queen Mary University of London since 2016.
- Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Eastman Dental Institute, UCL (2007-2018).
- European Board of Periodontology (2005).
- Fonseca Prize 2007, Spanish Society of Periodontology.
- ITI Schroeder Prize in preclinical research 2017.
- PhD Extraordinary Prize University of Santiago de Compostela.
- Member of the Executive Board of the Spanish Society of Periodontology (2007-2016)
- More than 25 publications in JCR journals.
- ITI Fellow
- Member of the Communications Committee of the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP)
- Director Private Practice Antonio Liñares in A Coruña (Spain) limited to Periodontology and Implant Dentistry
Mucogingival therapy 2.0 in complex recessions
Mucogingival surgery helps us to restore the aesthetics of the smile but also to improve the support of the teeth and therefore its long-term maintenance. Classic and new techniques can be used with slight modifications in advanced recession situations. In addition, interdisciplinary treatments can help us to treat these complex recessions to achieve success in treatment. It will be shown a new interdisciplinary protocol for the treatment of class 3 / RT2 recessions in anterior teeth of periodontal patients. When we treat periodontal patients, we are dealing with patients with an esthetic sequelae due to disease with black triangles. Moreover, once the disinfection phase under control, soft tissue shrinkage of the issues is expected, impairing patients esthetics.
This innovate protocol consists in performing mucogingival surgery with tunnel connective tissue graft during orthodontic tooth movement. Not before and not after, but during. This is what I called as Guided Ortho Mcucogingival Therapy (GOMT) protocol, since we are moving the tooth with a connective tissue graft aiming root coverage, not only buccal but also medial and distal where the black triangles are present. This orthodontic tooth movement is intrusion and palatal torque of the root, similarly what it occurs with the BOPT concept. Leave space for the soft tissues to advance coronally, but first thickening them.
