Most common causes of diastema:
- Genetic and familial history
- During teeth development
- Abnormal frenum: High attachment of labial frenum (fold of the mucous membrane connecting the lip to upper jaw).
- Tooth – arch length discrepancy: with missing teeth, small size teeth, peg shaped lateral incisors,large jaw size
- Habits: Habits such as thumb sucking or tongue thrusting can cause proclination of teeth resulting in spacing
- Midline pathology: cysts, tumors and odontomes
- Treamemt related
- Imperfect fusion of bones at the midline
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