Creeping attachment after free connective tissue graft for treatment of gingival recession

This paper reviews in details aspects of reported creeping attachment in the literature and in addition reports a clinical case with detailed descriptions and follow-up period of one year. The case report describes a creeping attachment that developed after using free connective tissue graft to treat a gingival recession on the lower left central incisor. Most of the cases on creeping attachment were reported in literature following free gingival grafts and submerged connective tissue grafts. To the author’s knowledge, this type of creeping attachment using purely free connective tissue graft has not been previously reported in the dental literature. The developed creeping attachment in this case displayed a similar way of healing events that had been reported following free gingival grafts.