Secondary outcomes: Postoperative pain and wound shrinkage
postoperative pain, pain
SECONDARY
A secondary objective of the study was to assess postoperative pain. A visual analog score (VAS) questionnaire was used to evaluate the amount of pain, ranging from 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain), and the patients were asked to fill out the questionnaire on the VAS scales on the day after surgery.To assess the wound shrinkage, the amount of apical placement of the flap at the surgery was compared to the newly attached gingiva gained after 8 weeks. Wound shrinkage was calculated as follows:
