Understanding Altered Passive Eruption

Anne Sin, RDH, BSDH, is a full-time practicing dental hygienist in a periodontal office and a Master of Science in Dental Hygiene student at the University of Michigan (U-M) School of Dentistry in Ann Arbor. She can be reached at annesin@umich.edu.

Luciana Branco-de-Almeida, DDS, MS, PhD, is an associate professor in the undergraduate and graduate program at the Federal University of Maranhão in Brazil, dedicated to clinical dental practice and research. As a specialist in periodontology with a doctoral degree in pharmacology, she has significant experience as an educator and researcher, conducting studies in clinical and translational research. Branco-de-Almeida contributed to the cases shown in the manuscript.

Leonardo Viana Araújo, DDS, MS, is an associate professor in the postgraduate program in dentistry, at Universidade CEUMA, São Luís, Maranhão. He contributed to the digital planning of the cases shown in the manuscript.

Chris Haddlesey, BA, is an adjunct clinical lecturer at the U-M School of Dentistry. He works with graduate dental hygiene students in the drafting, editing, and reviewing techniques necessary for scholarly publication.

Janet Kinney, RDH, MS, is a clinical professor and director of dental hygiene at U-M. Her clinical experience is in both general dentistry and periodontics, where she has worked both in the United States and abroad. Kinney’s clinical research interest is in the area of salivary diagnostics. Specifically, her research has focused on investigating the role of oral fluid biomarkers, alone or in conjunction with pathogens, as predictors of periodontal disease progression. Kinney is a member of Dimensions of Dental Hygiene’s Editorial Advisory Board.

Sandra Stuhr, DMD, MS, is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine at the U-M School of Dentistry and a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology.