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Severe recessions around implants is a common issue. Unhappily this is a problem we have to face in our everyday practice. To deal with it we have to develop strategies to meet our patients expectations. Recessions and peri-implantitis come together very often. Being capable to improve the biological environment around a dental implant may have huge relevance in it´s long-term prognosis. Treatment algorithms proposed by some authors are often very complicated and sometimes frustrating in what comes to results. Filipe Lopes & Bernardo Mira Correa will try to present simple algorithms and biological ways for trying to solve this kind of clinical challenge, other than implant explantation that must be also, and so many times, considered as the first choice. This is intended to be the first of a series of posts on the subject. We will feature different soft tissue management strategies, including autologous grafts and alloderm. We will underline the importance of: diagnosis,PRGF ENDORET® graft, type of implant, grafting technique to use and allografts that can possibly help us on some challenging situations. Emphasis will be also held on tools, the BTI extraction kit, that allow us an easier removal of implants than ever before, reducing dramatically the biological cost of their loss and making it easier to place a new implant. At the end we will try to provide for a simpler treatment algorithm, that has been of good service for us, for some years now.