Curettage
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Curettage refers to the surgical scraping of the gingival pocket wall and granulation tissue. In gingival curettage, the pocket wall is removed, whereas in subgingival curettage, the instrument is taken to the bone margin and both the junctional epithelium and supra-alveolar fibers are removed. Curettage has little significance as a mo...