🔹 Gingival curettage – Surgical procedure designed to remove the soft tissue lining of the periodontal pocket with a curette, leaving only gingival connective tissue lining.
🔹Inadvertent curettage – Curettage which is done unintentionally when scaling and root planing procedure is performed.
🔹Subgingival curettage – Procedure that is performed apical to the epithelial attachment, severing the connective tissue attachment down to the osseous crest.
🔹The major disadvantage of gingival curettage procedure is limited access, especially in deep, tortuous and infrabony pockets.
🔹 While performing curettage, Gracey curette No. 11–12 is used for distal surfaces of posteriors and Gracey curette No. 13–14 is used for mesial surfaces of posteriors (which is opposite for scaling and root planing).
🔹 For gingival curettage blade, face to tooth surface angulation is more than 90°.
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