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The hall of periodontal surgical procedures has been constantly amplified since the mid-1950s by the development of techniques, biomaterials and the knowledge retrieved by basic/clinical research acquired, in order to combine the advantages of function’s reestablishment with improvement of aesthetics. A single search of the National Centre for Biotechnology Information, US National Library of Medicine database (PubMed) using the terms “periodontal surgery” (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=periodontal+surgery) provides access to more than 14,000 publications. Such a huge amount of references regards to all types of study designs; all of them presented together and without ranking the quality of information. As a result, the decision-making process may be jeopardized when low-quality data are erroneously used to guide a treatment plan.
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Chambrone, L. (2015). Evidence-Based Decision-Making: An Overview. In: Chambrone, L. (eds) Evidence-Based Periodontal and Peri-Implant Plastic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13975-3_1
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