[The value of surgery in parodontal treatment (author's transl)].

Treatment of parodontal affections must include all therapeutic procedures available. Surgical treatment, which aims at suppressing the parodontal lesions and creating an architecture which avoids relapses, is still the principal weapon. As, however, in the last analysis, the causes of parodontal lesions are infection and constraint, occlusive treatment is an extremely important part of therapy, integrating occlusal equilibration, orthodontal procedures, and the prosthesis.