 Post-Operative Treatment The patients were prescribed systemic antibiotic therapy consisting of 200mg of doxycycline the day before surgery, followed by 100 mg daily continued until the 20th day after surgery. No surgical dressing was used. The patients were instructed to continue their regular home hygiene care, except in the operated area, which was cleaned by means of gentle topical applications of 0.2 chlorhexidine gluconate Perioxidin, Lacer, Barcelona, Spain in saturated cotton swabs. Patients were instructed not to brush or floss the surgical area for 4 weeks, when mechanical plaque control was re-instituted. The sutures were removed two weeks after surgery. Hyper-mobile teeth were splinted either before or immediately after the surgical procedure. 