Archive for August 2026

When patients research treatment for receding gums, two approaches dominate the conversation. The Pinhole Surgical Technique (PST), developed and trademarked by Dr. John Chao, has been marketed aggressively as a minimally invasive alternative to traditional grafting. Connective tissue grafting (the gold standard surgical approach) has decades of published outcomes data behind it. Both have legitimate…

If a periodontist has recommended a gum graft, you probably want two things: a clear picture of which graft technique is being proposed for your situation and a realistic week-by-week sense of what recovery actually looks like. The internet tends to deliver one of two extremes. Some sources make grafting sound trivial, and others make…