Introduction: Gingival recessions are associated with dentin hypersensitivity, root caries, esthetic problems. In many occasions orthodontic treatments and the thickness of the gingival tissue and keratinized tissue play an important role in the etiology.

Objective: To analyze the literature on gingival recession. The topics of gingival biotypes, etiology, signs, symptoms and treatment will be reviewed.

Methodology: Electronic databases such as PubMed, Scopus, Google scholar, Scopus were consulted, using the keywords "gingival recession, treatment, signs and sypmpthoms, treatment".

Results: Gingival recession is one of the pathologies in which the main factor that causes it is unknown, however studies have shown that patients with a thin gingival biotype have a greater predisposition to suffer this type of lesion and as a consequence cause esthetic problems, hypersensitivity, root caries, etc. That is why over time various methods have been studied to treat this disease, being the connective tissue graft with flap the "gold standard".

Conclusion: Gingival recessions play a very important role in oral pathologies; since nowadays it is one of the most frequent, affecting patients with periodontitis and healthy periodontium. Therefore, being a disease of multifactorial origin, its treatment sometimes becomes complex due to the need to restore esthetic and physiological aspects.