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Forty patients with multiple gingival recessions (GR) located at maxillary or mandibular teeth were treated between January 2018 and December 2019. Reduction in GR, average root coverage (ARC), complete root coverage (CRC), increase in keratinized tissue width (KTW), increase in gingival thickness (GT), and aesthetic evaluation with the root coverage esthetic score (RES) were evaluated after 24 months. Thirty patients with 270 recessions in the upper teeth and ten patients with 90 recessions in the lower teeth completed the 2-year recall. The differences between preoperative and postoperative clinical parameters showed statistical significance only within but not between groups. ARC at 2 years was 93.31% for maxillary teeth and 93.06% for mandibular teeth (p = 0.7906). Mean RES values were comparable for upper and lower teeth (9.25 versus 8.92, respectively, p = 0.6733). However, upper teeth achieved significantly higher scores for marginal tissue contour (MTC), muco-gingival junction alignment (MGJ), and gingival color (GC). Lower teeth had decreased chances of receiving better RES (OR = 0.49, CI 0.24\u20130.99, p = 0.0457) in regression analysis, when compared with upper teeth. MCAT + SCTG achieved comparably favorable 2-year outcomes for the treatment of multiple GR in upper and in lower teeth. However, the individual RES components were higher in maxillary teeth, and upper teeth had higher odds of receiving better RES.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph191711024","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,6]],"date-time":"2022-09-06T05:17:23Z","timestamp":1662441443000},"page":"11024","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Clinical and Aesthetic Outcomes of Multiple Gingival Recessions Coverage with Modified Coronally Advanced Tunnel and Subepithelial Connective Tissue Graft in Maxilla and Mandible: A 2-Year Retrospective Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Izabela","family":"Skierska","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Periodontology and Oral Mucosa Disease, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Beata","family":"Wyr\u0119bek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Periodontology and Oral Mucosa Disease, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3918-4332","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bart\u0142omiej","family":"G\u00f3rski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Periodontology and Oral Mucosa Disease, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"72","article-title":"Exposed root surface: A review of aetiology, management and evidence-based outcomes of treatment","volume":"100","author":"Lovegrove","year":"2004","journal-title":"N. 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